Esh Hall
ESH HALL, HALL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1299432
- Date first listed:
- 06-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Esh Hall
- Statutory Address:
- ESH HALL, HALL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1299432
- Date first listed:
- 06-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Esh Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- ESH HALL, HALL 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:
- ESH HALL, HALL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Esh
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 19711 43728
Details
ESH HALL LANE NZ 14 SE (South end) Esh
10/10 Esh Hall 6.2.52 GV II
House. 1857 rebuilding of probably 1687 house, incorporating some C17 fabric; early C20 extension. Irregular courses of squared sandstone; rear wing rubble; ashlar plinth, quoins and dressings; Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings. T-plan. Garden front 2 storeys, 3 bays, the third projecting slightly under front gable; late C19 sashes in central stone-mullioned corniced canted bay and in left window in architrave under scroll pediment; sill bands to C20 sashes above, flanking eroded sundial with pilasters and cornice. Square ground-floor bay window at right with alternate-block rustication, and stone-mullioned overlight on cornice; pilastered parapet above in front of paired late C19 sashes under C19 scrolled pediment with raised central panel; overlapping gable copings, with ball finials on right front gable; corniced ashlar chimneys on external stacks on returns and at right of second bay on ridge. Right return has 6-panel door and overlight under scrolled pediment. Gabled rear wing has blocked chamfered flat-Tudor-arched door under stone mask and dripmould; re-used scrolled pediment on one window in gable peak.
C20 left extension of one storey, 2 bays has flat stone lintels and projecting stone sills.
Interior: architraves, 4-panelled doors and some panelled window-shutters; cellar shows re-used rafters, some with carpenter's marks and stopped chamfers, as joists; panelled stucco beam along centre of left 2 bays suggests earlier fabric remains.
Listing NGR: NZ1971143728
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 350516
- 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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