Hexham House
Hexham House, Gilesgate
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1281531
- Date first listed:
- 02-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Hexham House
- Statutory Address:
- Hexham House, Gilesgate
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1281531
- Date first listed:
- 02-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Hexham House
- Statutory Address 1:
- Hexham House, Gilesgate
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:
- Hexham House, Gilesgate
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hexham
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 93457 64229
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 30 August 2023 to update the group value statement and to reformat the address and text to current standards
NY 9364
1/26
GILESGATE (South West Side)
Hexham House
2.10.51.
GV
II*
Dated 1723 with later wings. Main garden front to south west. Three storeys, five windows with two storey flanking wings of two windows each. Ashlar with quoins at sides of main block, centre bay and south east wing. Moulded string above first and ground floors. Cornice and parapet. Stone chimneys. Glazing bar sash windows. Projecting porch on piers, reeded door surround to glazed door. Inside on lintel to this door: "T.A." over "Has Aedes struxit" over "1723". Panelled rooms to garden. Left hand wing recessed; rubble with some alterations on ground floor. Right hand (south-east) wing ashlar circa 1840 with cornice and blocking course. Rich plasterwork inside, coved ceiling to garden front room.
Street front: wings project, right hand wing (north west) brick built and joined to centre by narrow one window annexe. This wing also has a lead rainwater head to street, kidney shaped with mask in relief with, above, a box with the arms of Durham Abbey. South east wing ashlar. Centre ashlar, three windows with raised surrounds, cornice and parapet. Closed porch with six panel door in centre.
Hexham House, together with Nos 2 to 8 (even) and the Wall to the Bowling Green, form a group.
Listing NGR: NY9345764229
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 239098
- 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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