Methold Houses
METHOLD HOUSES, 1-11
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1311141
- Date first listed:
- 23-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Methold Houses
- Statutory Address:
- METHOLD HOUSES, 1-11
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1311141
- Date first listed:
- 23-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Methold Houses
- Statutory Address 1:
- METHOLD HOUSES, 1-11
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:
- METHOLD HOUSES, 1-11
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Urpeth
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 22170 53805
Details
URPETH BEAMISH NZ 25 SW 3/57 Methold Houses (Nos. 1 to 11, consecutive) GV II
Almshouses, now 11 dwellings. Dated 1863, built for John Eden (plaque on central bay); later C19 rear outshut. Tooled ashlar sandstone, graduated green slate roof and ashlar chimney stacks. Stretched E-plan. Tudor-Gothic style.
2 storeys; symmetrical 7-bay front and one-bay return wings. Slightly-projecting centre bay and wings have shaped gables. 3 slightly-projecting window bays with half dormers flanking centre; identical bay on inner return of each wing. Mullioned windows in double-chamfered surrounds. Centre bay: Tudor-arched doorway and flanking sashes under continuous hoodmould; plaque above door inscribed: 1863 BUILT AND ENDOWED BY JOHN EDEN; 2-light window above plaque under pointed hoodmould. Flanking 3-bay sections and inner returns of wings; replaced doors and 2-light windows, with 2-pane sashes, under continuous hoodmoulds; hoodmoulds stepped over windows and forming pointed arches enclosing trefoils over doors; gabled half dormers with 2-light windows. External chimney with offsets and paired octagonal-plan stacks on gable end of each wing. Steeply-pitched roof: 4 cross-axial ridge chimneys, each with 4 conjoined octagonal-plan stacks. Narrow added single-storey outshut on rear has seven 4-panel doors and 2-light windows with replaced casements; tall stack rising through centre of pent roof.
A well-detailed and unaltered example.
Listing NGR: NZ2217053805
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 109402
- 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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