Eggleshope House East With Attached Outbuildings Eggleshope House West With Attached Outbuildings
EGGLESHOPE HOUSE EAST WITH ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS, PROSPECT TERRACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1322750
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Eggleshope House East With Attached Outbuildings Eggleshope House West With Attached Outbuildings
- Statutory Address:
- EGGLESHOPE HOUSE EAST WITH ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS, PROSPECT TERRACE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1322750
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Eggleshope House East With Attached Outbuildings Eggleshope House West With Attached Outbuildings
- Statutory Address 1:
- EGGLESHOPE HOUSE EAST WITH ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS, PROSPECT TERRACE
- Statutory Address 2:
- EGGLESHOPE HOUSE WEST WITH ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS, PROSPECT TERRACE
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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:
- EGGLESHOPE HOUSE EAST WITH ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS, PROSPECT TERRACE
- Statutory Address:
- EGGLESHOPE HOUSE WEST WITH ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS, PROSPECT TERRACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Eggleston
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 99508 24186
Details
EGGLESTON PROSPECT TERRACE NY92SE (West end)
19/28 Eggleshope House West and Eggleshope House East with attached out- buildings GV II 2 houses, at one time united and later re-divided, with outbuildings attached. Mid C19 for London Lead Company. Coursed squared coarse sandstone with ashlar dressings and chamfered quoins; rear coursed rubble. Stone-flagged roof with stone gable copings. 2 storeys, 6 bays and east pent one-storey addition, to which a one-storey, 5-bay outbuilding is attached at right-angles. South elevation: early C20 metal French doors with glazing bars at centre of each house between plain pilasters under stone-bracketed gabled hoods. Flat stone lintels and projecting stone sills to sashes with glazing bars, those of Eggleshope House West with plain glazing added in front of original sashes. Stone block gutter brackets. 3 corniced ridge chimneys, at ends and centre. Set-back right pent addition, front obscured by low C20 addition, links to gable of outbuildings.
Rear elevation shows each house has central 2-storey projection under catslide roof, with doors in plain stone surrounds; pedimented porch with plain round columns to Eggleshope House East; sashes with glazing bars. Inner return of outbuildings has wood lintels over 2 boarded vehicle entrances, and stone lintels over 2 boarded doors and fixed light with glazing bars and brick sill. Said to have been the home for many years of Ethel M. Dell, popular novelist (1881-1939).
Listing NGR: NY9950824186
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 111830
- 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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