Lanchester House With Walls in Front

LANCHESTER HOUSE WITH WALLS IN FRONT, 35, FRONT STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1320434
Date first listed:
04-Aug-1975
List Entry Name:
Lanchester House With Walls in Front
Statutory Address:
LANCHESTER HOUSE WITH WALLS IN FRONT, 35, FRONT STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1320434
Date first listed:
04-Aug-1975
List Entry Name:
Lanchester House With Walls in Front
Statutory Address 1:
LANCHESTER HOUSE WITH WALLS IN FRONT, 35, FRONT STREET

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
LANCHESTER HOUSE WITH WALLS IN FRONT, 35, FRONT STREET

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

District:
County Durham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Lanchester
National Grid Reference:
NZ 16504 47595

Details

LANCHESTER FRONT STREET NZ 1647 (North side) Lanchester

13/87 No. 35 4/8/75 (Lanchester House) with walls in front

GV II

House and area walls. Second quarter of C18 with C19 alterations. House painted incised stucco with painted ashlar dressings, plinth and quoins; return gables rendered on sandstone rubble; stone-flagged roof with stone gable copings and ashlar chimneys. Ashlar dwarf walls. House: 2 storeys, 3 bays. Steps up to central door (with 3 over 3 vertical panels) and overlight in plain stone surround with corner blocks and plain hood. Margined sashes in flanking canted bays and in first-floor windows in plain stone surrounds. Quoins project; stone gutter brackets. Roof has end coping on moulded kneelers, and end corniced chimneys on plinths. Rear round-headed stair window with intersecting glazing bars; horizontal 8-pane attic window with one opening pane and broad glazing bars.

Dwarf walls in front have overhanging chamfered coping.

Listing NGR: NZ1650447595

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
350594
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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