Former Miner's Hall and Institute
FORMER MINER'S HALL AND INSTITUTE, SOUTH MOOR ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1260777
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Former Miner's Hall and Institute
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER MINER'S HALL AND INSTITUTE, SOUTH MOOR ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1260777
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Former Miner's Hall and Institute
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER MINER'S HALL AND INSTITUTE, SOUTH MOOR ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER MINER'S HALL AND INSTITUTE, SOUTH MOOR ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Stanley
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 19044 51466
Details
NZ 15 SE STANLEY SOUTH MOOR ROAD (West side) South Moor 7/192 Former Miner's Hall and Institute GV II Miners' Hall and Institute; now private function suites. Dated 1898 over door. Snecked sandstone, with brick returns and rear; ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof with stone gable coping and brick chimney; lead-covered porch roof. Chapel style. Gabled front to street 2 storeys, 3 bays, the central wider. Gabled porch with steps up to central flushed double doors in moulded, round- headed surround under open pediment and inscription MINERS HALL 1898; quadrant porch returns have blocked round-headed windows on both floors except for 6-panel door at right on ground floor. Porch entablature, with pulvinated frieze continuous with pediment bed; 2 paired blocked round-headed windows above porch flank central lesene with ball finial; similar finials on pinnacles of pilasters rising from entablature of porch. Round-headed blocked windows in outer bays. Rear gable chimney. 7-bay returns, the right with central 6-panel door in stone surround with open segmental pediment; panel with low-relief INSTITUTE, and small raised segmental pediment above; round-headed brick- arched windows, blocked except for 4 first-floor left-return stained glass windows. Included for historical and social interest.
Listing NGR: NZ1903551524
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 439551
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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