Howlish Hall
HOWLISH HALL, HOWLISH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292301
- Date first listed:
- 21-Apr-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Howlish Hall
- Statutory Address:
- HOWLISH HALL, HOWLISH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292301
- Date first listed:
- 21-Apr-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Howlish Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOWLISH HALL, HOWLISH LANE
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:
- HOWLISH HALL, HOWLISH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 24232 28812
Details
BISHOP AUCKLAND
NZ22NW HOWLISH LANE, Coundon 634-1/5/128 (South side) 21/04/52 Howlish Hall
GV II
House, now nursing home. c1700 with extensive late C18 additions and alterations, plus C19 east billiard room and west wing. MATERIALS: painted ashlar and render with painted ashlar plinth, quoins and dressings. Welsh slate roof with brick and ashlar chimneys. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys except for one-storey billiard room. East front 2:3:3 windows. 2 bays of double-span original house visible at left, obscured at right by C19 addition. Extruded porch in angle has canted entrance with ramp up to 8-panel double doors and plain overlight in architrave. Each return of porch has a single 2:4-pane sash in architrave with cyma recta cornice. Above, original build has 6:6-pane sashes in architraves. Projecting late C18 addition has windows similar to those of porch and 4-pane sashes above in corniced architraves. First 3 sashes in wide, 2-storey canted bay, then 3 further sashes adapted as top-hinged casements on the ground floor. Block gutter brackets to roof of original build, which has moulded kneelers to double gable on left return with flat stone coping continuing over central valley parapet. Lower-pitched hipped roof over late C18 part, with hipped projection over canted bay; behind this the roof of the first build has been raised to flat roof at ridge level. Hipped roofs to C19 rear wings. Chimneys on first build gables are brick with ashlar plinth and cornice; others on ridges and at rear are brick with brick cornices. Left return has 3 tall windows to billiard room at rear, double gable has one 4-pane sash on each floor of left bay. Right gable has C19 canted bay window on ground floor and blocked window on first floor. C19 addition blank on this side. Rear elevation shows C18 Venetian stair window over c1900 porch with Art Nouveau detail. INTERIOR shows much original detail of each period, including 2- and 6-panel doors, dado rails, plain corniced chimneypieces, door architraves. Most room cornices lost, but some may survive behind suspended ceiling. Staircase in C17 part has moulded grip handrail on turned balusters, much renewed but gallery original; fire screen inserted behind gallery; Venetian window has pilasters and architraves. C17 roof accessible from C19 flat-topped addition and shows crossed principal rafters holding ridge purlin; one original collar each truss, some additional later collars. One level of purlins. Conyers Surtees gives Hopper family as early owners, purchase in 1808 by David Crawford of Newcastle, in 1848 by Sir William Eden, and in 1924 the property of Messrs Bolckow, Vaughan and Co. (Surtees H C: History of the Parish of Coundon: Mainsforth: 1924-: 8).
Listing NGR: NZ2423228812
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 385684
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Surtees, HC, History of the Parish of Coundon, (1926), 8
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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