Whitfield House
WHITFIELD HOUSE, FRONT STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1276869
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Whitfield House
- Statutory Address:
- WHITFIELD HOUSE, FRONT STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1276869
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Whitfield House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHITFIELD HOUSE, FRONT STREET
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:
- WHITFIELD HOUSE, FRONT STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wolsingham
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 07447 37199
Details
WOLSINGHAM FRONT STREET NZ 0737 (South side) Wolsingham 39/359 Whitfield House 31.1.67 GV II*
House. Circa 1750. Rendered with plinth, painted ashlar dressings and quoins. Welsh slate roof has stone gable coping and brick and stone chimneys. 3 storeys, 6 windows. 8-panel double door and high patterned overlight in deep panelled reveal, in architrave with hood on large brackets. Sash windows with late C18 glazing bars in plain stone surrounds; moulded coping to ashlar parapet on moulded string, with corner pilasters. Interior: some panelled rooms on ground and first floors; 3 rooms have corner chimneys. Square open-well stair has ramped moulded grip handrail with slender turned balusters, alternate ones fluted, on open string with block tread ends; square panelled newels.
Listing NGR: NZ0744737199
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 408286
- 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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