Alwent Hall
ALWENT HALL, B6274
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1310994
- Date first listed:
- 14-Sept-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Alwent Hall
- Statutory Address:
- ALWENT HALL, B6274
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1310994
- Date first listed:
- 14-Sept-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Alwent Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- ALWENT HALL, B6274
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:
- ALWENT HALL, B6274
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Gainford
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 14278 18587
Details
NZ 11 NW GAINFORD B6274 side, off) (East side, off)
5/91 Alwent Hall 14.9.66
GV II
Large farmhouse. Late C17 with early C18 or Cl9 additions and alterations. Sandstone rubble, garden front has some brick infill and dressed sandstone section to right; mainly renewed pantiled roofs; rendered stone stacks.
Garden front, refenestrated in early Cl9, has dressed quoins. 2-storey, 4-bay section with later, slightly-projecting 2-storey, 2-bay section to right. Part- glazed 6-panel door in architrave with keystone in third bay from left; 4-pane sashes in raised surrounds. Steeply-pitched roof has coped gables with shaped kneelers; corniced end stacks and similar ridge stack. One-storey, one-bay addition to right has large 6-pane sash, semicircular bread oven at right return and steeply-pitched roof with right end stack of brick. Shed attached to right has boarded door and steeply-pitched roof.
Rear has central projecting gabled, 2-storey staircase wing flanked by later 2-storey outshuts. 12-pane stair window with thick glazing bars and radial head in raised surround with keystone and impost blocks; gable has moulded coping and shaped kneelers. Irregular fenestration of outshuts includes two 2-light flat- faced mullioned windows with 18-pane lights and thick glazing bars; several 6-pane sashes in raised surrounds. Two-pitch roof has coped gables with shaped kneelers.
Interior: early-mid C18 panelling in several rooms; Entrance Hall has built-in cupboards, 6-panel doors and 2-panel window shutters. Two-flight, cut-string dogleg staircase with two turned balusters per tread and wreathed and ramped handrail.
Listing NGR: NZ1427818587
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 111044
- 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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