The Old Hall
THE OLD HALL, 1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1322723
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Hall
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD HALL, 1
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/00926/01
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1322723
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD HALL, 1
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:
- THE OLD HALL, 1
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wackerfield
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 15010 22418
Details
WACKERFIELD WACKERFIELD NZ 12 SE 10/220 No. 1 (The Old Hall)
II
House, at one time 2 houses. Late C17. Limewashed rubble with rubble plinth and painted ashlar dressings: roof pantiled with 2 rows of stone flags at eaves, stone gable coping and stone chimneys. Hearth passage plan with right rear stair wing. 2 storeys, 3 bays, the third wider. Renewed door in architrave with frieze and cornice in second bay; flat stone lintels and projecting stone sills to sashes of late C19 type. Roof has cyma reversa moulded kneelers, coping ends removed; 2 banded ridge chimneys flanking door. Rear gabled stair wing has roof in similar style; pent porch addition in angle with house. Original rear door opposite front door has tongue-stopped chamfered surround, now within rear porch.
Interior: several boarded 2-panel doors and ledged boarded doors; stone fire arch in third bay ground floor room obscured by C20 boarding; open-well newel stair has flat-topped handrail, with grip mould on outer edge, on splat balusters and moulded close string, with low pyramidal caps and pendants to some newels. Broad-chamfered beam in third bay, underdrawn and boxed in other bays.
Listing NGR: NZ1501022418
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 111586
- 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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