High Shipley
HIGH SHIPLEY, B 6278
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1311008
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- High Shipley
- Statutory Address:
- HIGH SHIPLEY, B 6278
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1311008
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- High Shipley
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGH SHIPLEY, B 6278
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:
- HIGH SHIPLEY, B 6278
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Marwood
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 01458 21625
Details
MARWOOD B 6278 off) NZ 02 SW (South side, off) 7/55 High Shipley
GV II
House. Dated 1670 on bay window; late C18/early C19 alterations. Rubble with boulder plinth and ashlar dressings; some quoins; coursed squared sandstone upper 2 floors of bay window. Stone-flagged roof with stone gable copings. T plan: main block has left cross wing. Main block 3 storeys, 3 bays; wing 2 storeys, one bay and 6 on left return. Main block: inserted 6-panel door in second bay under tooled flat stone lintel; similar lintel over inserted 12-pane sash with projecting stone sill in first bay. First bay has chamfered stone surrounds to altered first-floor window, with horizontal sliding sash, and 2-light stone-mullioned second-floor window; moulded horizontal elliptical - lights over door on each floor. Right end bay has deep square full-height projecting bay window, with 3 front and one side panels in panelled flat- fronted mullions and surrounds, the inner faces half-diamonds; ogee-section cornices above ground and first-floor windows, the former truncated by door alteration, the latter continuing as string across left bays. First-floor windows placed high in floor; second floor of projecting bay has small square windows at eaves under low pitched roof. Left gabled projection blank except for large square window at right on ground floor in C20 stone surround. All gables have cyma-moulded kneelers, plain copings, and banded end stone chimneys, the right much smaller than its large external stack. Moulded panel on second floor of projecting bay has low-relief date and initials 16 GES 70, said to be for the Simpson family, over primitive representation of deer and hounds.
Rear stair wing under continuous roof of different pitch; 2-storey rear outshut under catslide roof. Cross wing has C20 glazing in square window at right of ground floor; C20 glazing and porch on left return, and similar glazing and inserted garage door at rear on inner return from main block.
Interior: ground floor has stop-chamfered stone fire with straight lintel, and moulded wood door-surround (door missing) to salt cupboard; closed-well stone stair; stop-chamfered beams; many original doors. Cross wing has flat Tudor- arched chamfered stone fire in rear gable, with square salt cupboard-recess to right; resited pair of large crucks against rear gable, original position in wall not known.
Listing NGR: NZ0145821625
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 111419
- 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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