The Manor House
THE MANOR HOUSE, HIGH STARTFORTH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1322757
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- The Manor House
- Statutory Address:
- THE MANOR HOUSE, HIGH STARTFORTH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1322757
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- The Manor House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE MANOR HOUSE, HIGH STARTFORTH
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 MANOR HOUSE, HIGH STARTFORTH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Startforth
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 04611 15874
Details
NZ 0415 STARTFORTH HIGH STARTFORTH (South side)
12/174 The Manor House 12.1.67
GV II
House, late C17, probably for Ambrose Barnes. Stone, rendered and pebbledashed; cut dressings. Graduated stone slate roof.
South elevation 2 storeys + attic, 5 bays, symmetrical. Central renewed fielded-panel door and radial fanlight in rusticated surround, with raised imposts and keystone, flanked by pilasters carrying a cornice topped by 2 courses of stone slates; above is a keyed oval with radial glazing. Ground floor small-paned casements in cross windows with panelled mullions and transoms; 4-pane sashes, with pulvinated friezes and cornices, to 1st floor; all windows in architraves, those in second bay renewed. Central 2-light flat-mullioned attic window directly beneath eaves. Coped gables on moulded kneelers; stepped-and-corniced end stacks. Left return shows 1st-floor 4-pane casement and 2 chamfered attic lights; right return shows 1st floor 4-pane sash, with 4-pane casement and 4-pane sash to attic.
Road front: Central boarded door in surround of pilasters, frieze and cornice topped by 2 courses of stone slates, between small chamfered windows, the left one with 4-pane casement and old iron bar, the right one blocked. To right is a 2-light chamfered mullioned window; ground floor left bay blank. 1st floor central keyed oval flanked by 2-light mullioned windows in architraves.
Interior: Dining room fireplace with chamfered lintel on bolster impost blocks, sitting room fireplace with early C19 ironwork, flanked by open cupboards in architraves. Closed-string dogleg stair with turned balusters, square newels and moulded handrail. 2-panel doors throughout. Bedroom wall cupboards with H and butterfly hinges. Attics have 3 stop-chamfered upper- cruck trusses with collar beams and later saddles.
Historical note: Ambrose Barnes, d.1710, was a noted Puritan, and became Lord Mayor of Newcastle. In early C19 the house was a "Yorkshire" boarding school.
Pent single-storey extension on left return is not of special interest.
Listing NGR: NZ0461115874
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 111765
- 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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