Demesnes Mill House and Mill Cottage and Attached Railings
DEMESNES MILL HOUSE AND MILL COTTAGE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, GRAY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282739
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Demesnes Mill House and Mill Cottage and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address:
- DEMESNES MILL HOUSE AND MILL COTTAGE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, GRAY LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282739
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 28-Nov-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Demesnes Mill House and Mill Cottage and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- DEMESNES MILL HOUSE AND MILL COTTAGE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, GRAY LANE
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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:
- DEMESNES MILL HOUSE AND MILL COTTAGE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, GRAY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Barnard Castle
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 05309 15900
Details
BARNARD CASTLE
NZ01NE GRAY LANE 770-1/2/71 (East side (off)) 22/02/73 Demesnes Mill House and Mill Cottage and attached railings (Formerly Listed as: GREY LANE Demesne Mill House & Mill Cottage)
GV II
Shown on OS as Demesnes Mill Farm. House and cottages with addition, and railings attached. Dated 1825 ED (?the Earl of Darlington) with addition at left dated 1923. For the Earl of Darlington and Lord Barnard. Rubble with ashlar quoins and dressings; roof of graduated stone slates with stone ridge and stone and yellow brick chimneys. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 1:3:1:2-window range. 3-bay house has inscribed tooled stone surround to central flush door and overlight with small glazing bars; flat stone lintels and projecting stone sills to 16-pane sashes. Similar treatment to sashes at left and boarded door with overlight at right of cottage to right of house. House and cottage have end quoins. Similar lintels and sills to left extension with boarded door and small light at left, and to horizontal sliding sash at right on ground floor, and 16-pane sash above; datestone between floors has date: 1923 with crowned `B' for Lord Barnard. Right-end offices, set back slightly, have boarded doors at left and under second window, 2 horizontal-sliding sashes between doors and 2 above them. Dwarf stone wall encloses narrow space in front of house and left extension and has gates and lengths of wrought-iron railing formed by alternate hoops and spike-headed uprights, with spear-headed principals. INTERIOR: not inspected.
Listing NGR: NZ0530915900
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388702
- 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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