Peile House Shotley House Shotley House Cottage
PEILE HOUSE, THE TERRACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1260917
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Peile House Shotley House Shotley House Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- PEILE HOUSE, THE TERRACE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1260917
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Peile House Shotley House Shotley House Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- PEILE HOUSE, THE TERRACE
- Statutory Address 2:
- SHOTLEY HOUSE COTTAGE, THE TERRACE
- Statutory Address 3:
- SHOTLEY HOUSE, THE TERRACE
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:
- PEILE HOUSE, THE TERRACE
- Statutory Address:
- SHOTLEY HOUSE COTTAGE, THE TERRACE
- Statutory Address:
- SHOTLEY HOUSE, THE TERRACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 09328 52901
Details
NZ 05 SE CONSETT THE TERRACE (East side) Shotley Bridge 5/87 (inset) Shotley House, Shotley House Cottage and Peile House GV II House, now 3 separate houses. Built as Shotley House circa 1860 for J. Priestman. Pecked, margined sandstone ashlar with plinth and quoins; Welsh slate roof with ashlar and yellow brick chimneys. E-plan. Front range and long F-plan rear range. Italianate style. Front range: 2 storeys, 3 bays. 6 wide steps up to half-glazed door and side lights flanked by square Tuscan columns and pilasters, under overlights and entablature with prominent cornice; etched glass in principal lights. Sill band to 4-pane sash in plain stone surround above, recessed under corbel table linking outer bays. Quoined outer bays have similar sashes in 2-storey canted bays. Continuous first-floor-level band and top entablature with paired curved stone brackets under wide eaves. Low-pitched hipped roof has shallow hips over canted bays; 2 cruciform brick chimneys on ashlar plinths; rear corniced ashlar chimneys on other ranges. Left return has 2 bays of front range, that to right with square projecting bay, and a fern-house grotto covering the left bay, with conservatory removed; plainer 2-storey, set-back bay with left quoins; plain 2-storey, 4-bay rear wing set back. Right return has projecting central wing, now Shotley House Cottage; courtyard behind with 2 ranges of servants' quarters and coach houses, now Peile House. Rear range has pebble-dashed extended upper storey. Interior of Shotley House: Imperial stair in central hall has wreaths and curtails; 6-panel doors in architraves throughout; moulded panelled internal shutters; some original marble chimneypieces; rich stucco decoration to ceiling roses and cornices in late C18 style.
Listing NGR: NZ0932852901
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 439095
- 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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