Shoreston House
SHORESTON HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1275904
- Date first listed:
- 26-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Shoreston House
- Statutory Address:
- SHORESTON HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1275904
- Date first listed:
- 26-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Shoreston House
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHORESTON HOUSE
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:
- SHORESTON HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- North Sunderland
- National Grid Reference:
- NU 20384 32620
Details
NORTH SUNDERLAND SHORESTON NU 23 SW 9/191 Shoreston House GV II House. 1913 by Robert Mauchlen for Sir Stephen Runciman Bart. Random rubble, the front face finely dressed. Pantiled roof. Arts and Crafts style. 2 storeys. 3-bay house with attached granary, garage and dovecote to right. House: Left 2 bays project. Boarded and battened door with 12-pane casement to left in cross-gabled second bay; 3-light casement, above. Single-storey left bay has 12-pane casement under catslide roof. Right bay has 2 casements on ground floor and one large casement above. Right of this a projecting garage with cross-gabled roof which has longer left pitch with swept eaves; in the gable a dovecote with 10 pigeon holes and 4 alighting ledges; boarded garage door on right return. Right of this and behind it, under one roof with house, outhouse with half-glazed door and flanking 6-pane casements on ground floor; 4 ventilation slits to granary above. Gabled roof with corniced left end stack and ridge stack. Attached on left a former archway made into doorway mid C20; elliptical arch rising from moulded corbels; pantiled roof over. This archway links with Shoreston Cottage and Midcote (qv). Forms part of picturesque group with neigh- bouring houses. Before the Mast and After, by Sir Stephen Runciman Bart. Newcastle 1924.
Listing NGR: NU2038432620
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 410908
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Runciman, S, Before the Mast and After, (1924)
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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