SPENNYMOOR COTTAGE AND SPENNYMOOR HOUSE

SPENNYMOOR COTTAGE AND SPENNYMOOR HOUSE, WHITWORTH TERRACE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1310652
Date first listed:: 14-Jun-1988
List Entry Name:: SPENNYMOOR COTTAGE AND SPENNYMOOR HOUSE
Statutory Address:: SPENNYMOOR COTTAGE AND SPENNYMOOR HOUSE, WHITWORTH TERRACE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1310652
Date first listed:: 14-Jun-1988
List Entry Name:: SPENNYMOOR COTTAGE AND SPENNYMOOR HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: SPENNYMOOR COTTAGE AND SPENNYMOOR HOUSE, WHITWORTH TERRACE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: SPENNYMOOR COTTAGE AND SPENNYMOOR HOUSE, WHITWORTH TERRACE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: County Durham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Spennymoor
National Grid Reference:: NZ 24882 33222

Details

NZ 23 SW SPENNYMOOR WHITHWORTH TERRACE (North side) Four Lane Ends

5/75 Spennymoor Cottage and Spennymoor House II

House, originally inn, later estate office and house, now 2 houses. Early C18 for Shafto family of Whitworth Hall (q.v.). Early C19 additions. Main house, now Spennymoor Cottage, at right. C19 addition at left now Spennymoor House. Incised render with painted ashlar dressings; painted plinth and quoins; roof French tiles and pantiles, with stone gable copings and rear stone-flagged eaves; rear outshut roofs Welsh slate and synthetic stone tiles.- Earlier house at right 2 low storeys, 4 bays; later part 2 storeys, 2 bays. First build has half-glazed door in third bay, with gabled C20glazed porch; 4-pane sashes with painted projecting stone sills, those on first floor at eaves level with gabled dormer roofs; right end gable coping with curved kneeler; banded rendered end chimneys and larger chimney between third and fourth bays.

Left addition has half-glazed door with overlight at right, in doorcase of fluted pilasters and entablature, cornice breaking forward over pilasters. 4-pane sashes in canted bay window at left, and in right first-floor window; plain sashes in left first-floor window. Left quoins. Banded left end chimney on low-pitched roof. Right return of first build has stone in shape of bull set in gable peak, and some throughstones. Rear outshut of Spennymoor Cottage is now part of Spennymoor House.

Historical note: once the only building on Spenny Moor, erected as a commercial venture at the crossroads of the drovers' road and the Durham - Bishop Auckland road. Information from Mr. D. Moreton.

Listing NGR: NZ2488233222

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Legacy System number:: 112277
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.