GORST HALL

GORST HALL, 11 AND 12, SOUTH GREEN

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1322718
Date first listed:: 14-Sep-1966
List Entry Name:: GORST HALL
Statutory Address:: GORST HALL, 11 AND 12, SOUTH GREEN

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1322718
Date first listed:: 14-Sep-1966
List Entry Name:: GORST HALL
Statutory Address 1:: GORST HALL, 11 AND 12, SOUTH GREEN

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: GORST HALL, 11 AND 12, SOUTH GREEN

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

District:: County Durham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Staindrop
National Grid Reference:: NZ 12739 20548

Details

STAINDROP SOUTH GREEN NZ 1220 (South side) 17/184 Nos. 11 and 12 14/9/66 (Gorst Hall)

GV II

One house, now divided into 2. Circa 1700 with C18 and later alterations. Lime and sandstone rubble, left 3 bays (No. 11) thinly rendered and remainder (No. 12) colourwashed render, with rough plinth and ashlar dressings. Pantiled roof, with stone eaves to central section, rendered and ashlar chimneys,and stone gable copings. 2 storeys, 8 bays. Inserted 6-panel door and overlight under thin wood lintel in second bay; partly glazed door in C20 long-and-short stone jambs and corniced lintel in 6th bay. 2 corniced canted bay windows to right of door of No. 10, and a very wide one through bays 4 and 5, with renewed plain sashes; similar sashes on first floor of bays 4, 5 and 6 in plain stone surrounds. Sashes with glazing bars removed in first bay, and on first floor in second and third bays, under thin stone lintels and with some stone jamb pieces, suggesting earlier plain stone surrounds of C17 proportions. Walls of first 2 bays vertical; battered wall from left of third window. 2 right bays blank, and 3 central bays set back at first floor level.

Roof divides to right of third window, that to right more steeply pitched; 3 gable copings on moulded kneelers, varied chimneys, one at each gable on ridge and corniced ashlar chimney with plinth at right of sixth bay. Rear gabled stair wing at centre of No. 12 shows blocked 2-light stone mullioned windows; 2-storey, one-bay C20 addition to right of stair; corniced chimney on stair gable.

Interior of No. 12: dentilled stucco cornice in principal ground floor room at right, in front of very thick chimney breast and flanking inserted cupboards copied from those in room above, which have keyed moulded round heads on panelled fluted pilasters; stone Tudor-arched doorway, with stopped chamfer facing house, to stair wing; newel stair with moulded flat handrail, turned balusters, halved on newels, and close string. Roof trusses where visible are upper crucks with removed collar and lower purlins on blocks; upper part ceiled. Owner says door originally at right of present door, so probably originally battle entry plan.

Interior of No. 11 not inspected.

Listing NGR: NZ1273920548

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Legacy System number:: 111549
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.