Hansom House Lartington Hall Monk's Flat Witham Court
HANSOM HOUSE, LARTINGTON LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1310603
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Hansom House Lartington Hall Monk's Flat Witham Court
- Statutory Address:
- HANSOM HOUSE, LARTINGTON LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1310603
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Hansom House Lartington Hall Monk's Flat Witham Court
- Statutory Address 1:
- HANSOM HOUSE, LARTINGTON LANE
- Statutory Address 2:
- LARTINGTON HALL, LARTINGTON LANE
- Statutory Address 3:
- LARTINGTON HALL, LARTINGTON LANE
- Statutory Address 4:
- MONK'S FLAT, LARTINGTON LANE
- Statutory Address 5:
- WITHAM COURT, LARTINGTON 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:
- HANSOM HOUSE, LARTINGTON LANE
- Statutory Address:
- LARTINGTON HALL, LARTINGTON LANE
- Statutory Address:
- LARTINGTON HALL, LARTINGTON LANE
- Statutory Address:
- MONK'S FLAT, LARTINGTON LANE
- Statutory Address:
- WITHAM COURT, LARTINGTON LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Lartington
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 02142 17756
Details
LARTINGTON LARTINGTON LANE NZ 0217 (North side, off)
32/92 Lartington Hall, Monk's Flat, 12.1.67 Witham Court and Hansom House (Formerly listed as GV Lartington Hall) II* Large county house and former servants' wing, the latter now 3 dwellings: Monk's Flat, Witham Court and Hansom House. Dated 1635 on porch doorway; late C18 chapel and west wing; early C19 east wing with c.1836 ballroom addition possibly by Ignatius Bonomi; porte-cochère, vestibule, corridor and servants' wing added 1861-5 by Joseph Hansom. Pebble-dashed masonry, graduated green slate roofs and stone chimney stacks. Servants' wing: squared masonry; stone- flagged roofs and stone chimney stacks. Reversed U-plan: centre block; chapel, wing and rear servants' wing to west; early C19 east wing with ballroom and 1861-5 additions to north.
South front: 3-storey, 5-bay centre with projecting 3-storey porch: doorway with 3-centred head and re-cut 1635 date on lintel; blocked 2-light chamfered- mullioned window and 4-pane sash in architrave above. 4-pine sashes in flanking bays. 3-light Geometrical-tracery window in projecting chapel. 4-bay wing to east, with replaced 4-pane sashes, breaks forward. Eaves cornice. Low-pitched roof is hipped over wings and porch. Stepped and corniced ridge stacks with ornamental chimney pots.
2-storey, 9-bay east front has 3-bay centre and canted end bays. Plinth, replaced 4-pane sashes, eaves cornice and low-pitched roof. Ballroom addition: canted east bay with elaborate, pedimented tripartite window; taller main block behind with clerestory and low-pitched hipped roof; set-back north bay with Venetian window.
North front: 2-bay porte-cochère has round archways, end piers with vermiculated rustication, entablature with 1863 datestone and round-arched, pedimented return bays. Square vestibule behind has canted corners, small glazed lantern and low- pitched pyramidal roof.
2-storey west front of 2 builds: 3-bay north section has 12-pane sashes; 2 gabled porches at junction; 4-bay chapel has pointed windows with impost blocks; horse-mounting block to south end. Low-pitched hipped roof.
Servants' wing has sashes, steeply-pitched roofs, tall stacks and 1861 datestone in south gable of Hansom House.
Interior: former chapel, now squash court, has Gothic plasterwork, quadripartite rib-vaulted ceiling and north gallery. Colonnaded ballroom has canted corners, 4 segmental-arched recesses, Composite capitals, enriched entablature carried across the recesses, clerestory and coffered ceiling. Cinquecento-style additions by Hansom: vestibule with canted corners, niches, enriched round archways and painted coffered ceiling cove; linking 6-bay corridor to ballroom (south section has 3 circular skylights on pendentives; north section has late C20 suspended ceiling); spacious staircase hall has open-well cantilevered stone stair with wreathed and ramped handrail and cast-iron balusters, skylight with C19 heraldic stained glass, Venetian stair window with stained glass of Pre- Raphaelite female figure holding lyre.
Lartington Hall was the home of the geologist Henry Witham (1779-1844).
Listing NGR: NZ0214217756
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 111259
- 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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