Greenlaws (Former Primitive Methodist Chapel)
GREENLAWS (FORMER PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHAPEL), A689
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1278815
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Greenlaws (Former Primitive Methodist Chapel)
- Statutory Address:
- GREENLAWS (FORMER PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHAPEL), A689
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1278815
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Greenlaws (Former Primitive Methodist Chapel)
- Statutory Address 1:
- GREENLAWS (FORMER PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHAPEL), A689
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:
- GREENLAWS (FORMER PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHAPEL), A689
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Stanhope
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 84223 41717
Details
STANHOPE A689 (North side) NY 84 SW Lanehead 8/115 Greenlaws (Former Primitive Methodist Chapel) II
Primitive Methodist chapel and extension, now house. Dated 1858 (rebuilding of 1824 chapel) on panel over porch; extension late C19 as memorial to Jonathon and Oliver Humble, given by their family. Painted incised stucco chapel: extension coursed squared stone with painted ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roof with stone spirelet. One-storey, 3-bay chapel and one-storey, one-bay right extension. Central gabled porch contains renewed door and fanlight in keyed round arch on pilasters, gable coping with roll finial. Recessed date panel above. Flanking round-headed windows, with renewed glazing bars, have projecting stone sills. Lower extension, set back slightly, has side steps to half-glazed door with thin stone lintel; similar lintel and projecting stone sill to fixed light at right. Stone gutter brackets. Chapel has left end spirelet on corbelled small square corniced turret; blind trefoil on each face; broach spire has cushion-moulded top with spiral-and-leaf wrought iron finial.
Listing NGR: NY8422341717
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 404852
- 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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