East Range to Rear of the Old Manor House Hotel
EAST RANGE TO REAR OF THE OLD MANOR HOUSE HOTEL, FRONT STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292370
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- East Range to Rear of the Old Manor House Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- EAST RANGE TO REAR OF THE OLD MANOR HOUSE HOTEL, FRONT STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292370
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- East Range to Rear of the Old Manor House Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- EAST RANGE TO REAR OF THE OLD MANOR HOUSE HOTEL, 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:
- EAST RANGE TO REAR OF THE OLD MANOR HOUSE HOTEL, FRONT STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- West Auckland
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 17943 26400
Details
BISHOP AUCKLAND
NZ1726 FRONT STREET, West Auckland 634-1/9/187 (North side (off)) East range to rear of The Old Manor House Hotel
GV II
Formerly known as: West Auckland Brewery FRONT STREET West Auckland. Outbuilding to manor house (now The Old Manor House Hotel, qv), probably stables and lofts. Later part of brewery. Now leisure complex and hotel bedrooms. Late medieval with C17 left addition, and C19 and C20 alterations. MATERIALS: rubble with ashlar quoins and dressings. Concrete tile roof with stone gable copings. EXTERIOR: west elevation facing yard. 2 storeys, 6:4 bays. Left part has irregular fenestration with small windows and renewed glazing, boarded door and small window at right end, and left end bays obscured by pent C20 addition containing stair to upper floors. Staight join to first build at left which has slight batter to walls. Chamfered surround with elliptical head under relieving arch to door at left, now partly blocked and with window inserted. To right of this a flat stone lintel over an old ledged boarded door, with chamfered surround to small rectangular light immediately adjacent at right. Second elliptical-headed chamfered doorway to right of this under relieving arch, and second small chamfered light at right. Iron stair from right end to central half-glazed first-floor door. Two 9-pane lights at left, the first inserted in blocked door opening, have C19 glazing bars and are top-hung. Large quoins at right. Steeply pitched roof has overlapping stone gable coping at right with roll-moulded finial. Right return gable has relieving arch, at ground level, with a C20 6-pane window in chamfered surround. Top-hung lights with 6-pane on first floor and 9-pane in gable peak have thin timber lintels. Rear elevation shows few openings, with some chamfered. INTERIOR: first build roof has large truncated principal trusses; second build has collared trusses halved at ridge, with ridge and side purlins.
Listing NGR: NZ1794326400
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 385674
- 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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