Vane Tempest Hall
VANE TEMPEST HALL, GILESGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1310775
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Vane Tempest Hall
- Statutory Address:
- VANE TEMPEST HALL, GILESGATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1310775
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Vane Tempest Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- VANE TEMPEST HALL, GILESGATE
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:
- VANE TEMPEST HALL, GILESGATE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- City of Durham
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 28661 42667
Details
DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE GILESGATE NZ2842NE (South side off)
12/164 Vane Tempest Hall.
GV II
Militia headquarters building now community centre. Dated 1863 on corner turret panel inscribed '2nd Durham Militia Stores'.
Snecked sandstone with ashlar plinth, quoins and dressings; Welsh slate roof with ashlar chimneys and tall square yellow pots. L-plan; castle style.
2 storeys; 5 bays each wing and corner entrance tower, the end bays gabled and with relieving arches and coats of arms. Canted corner contains boarded double door in buttressed projection; carved panels and oak-leaf stopped drip-mould over door. Octagonal tower above has blind arrow slits and battlemented parapet. Mullioned and transomed windows in wings have chamfered surrounds. Blind arrow slits between first floor windows under 3 gabled dormers on each wing. Roof has fleur-de-lis finials, copings on kneelers, fishscale pattern tiles. Door inserted in left wing. Interior shows hammer-beam roof in drill hall in right wing; plain iron handrail to central stair. Included as the only Militia building surviving in County Durham.
Listing NGR: NZ2866142667
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 110216
- 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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