Middleton House
MIDDLETON HOUSE, HUDE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1322803
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Middleton House
- Statutory Address:
- MIDDLETON HOUSE, HUDE
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- Date:
- 1999-11-03
- Reference:
- IOE01/01029/14
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1322803
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Middleton House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MIDDLETON HOUSE, HUDE
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:
- MIDDLETON HOUSE, HUDE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Middleton in Teesdale
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 94510 25779
Details
In the entry for:-
MIDDLETON IN TEESDALE HUDE (North side) NY 94 25 24/103 Middleton House
GV II
the description shall be amended to read as follows:
House. 1823. By Ignatius Bonomi for London Lead Company, as agent's house and office, with later C19 addition of porch and right wing. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar plinth and dressings; ashlar porch; roof of Lakeland slate, with Welsh slate on left wing. Main block 3 storeys, 5 bays, with set-back 2-storey 3-bay left wing and extension of carriage arch and one-storey, 2 bay service block. One- storey right extension of 1-bay link and projecting one-bay wing. Main block has double panelled doors in right end porch with paired pilasters and blocking course; window inserted in segmental-headed surround of original central porch with chanelled rusticated voussoirs, extended to high panelled parapet. Alternate-block jambs and relieving arches to C20 12-pane windows on lower floors. Top floor has square 4-pane sashes. Cornice below first-floor relieving arches; first-floor sill band. Prominent cornice below attic storey. All mouldings continue around slightly-projecting outer bays. Top gutter cornice. Low-pitched hipped roof with corniced ridged chimneys. Left wing has arcaded ground-floor arch and windows; sashes on first floor of wing and in left extension. Right wing has window in keyed surround, and ogee pyramidal roof behind parapet with urn finials.
The house also has historical interest as the principal London Lead Company building in the area.
Source: A Raistrick Two Centuries of Industrial Welfare, Buxton 1977.
Interior and rear not inspected.
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MIDDLETON IN TEESDALE HUDE (North side) NY9425 24/103 Middleton House GV II House. Early C19 for London Lead Company, as agent's house and office, with later C19 addition of porch and right wing. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar plinth and dressings; ashlar porch; roof of Lakeland slate, with Welsh slate on left wing. Main block 3 storeys, 5 bays, with set-back 2-storey 3- bay left wing and extension of carriage arch and one-storey, 2-bay service block. One-storey right extension of l-bay link and projecting one-bay wing. Main block has double panelled doors in right end porch with paired pilasters and blocking course; window inserted in segmental-headed surround of original central porch with chanelled rusticated voussoirs, extended to high panelled parapet. Alternate-block jambs and relieving arches to C20 12-pane windows on lower floors. Top floor has square 4-pane sashes. Cornice below first-floor relieving arches; first-floor sill band. Prominent cornice below attic storey. All mouldings continue around slightly-projecting outer bays. Top gutter cornice. Low-pitched hipped roof with corniced ridged chimneys. Left wing has arcaded ground-floor arch and windows; sashes on first floor of wing and in left extension. Right wing has window in keyed surround, and ogee pyramidal roof behind parapet with urn finials.
Included for historical interest as principal London Lead Company building in the area.
Source: A. Raistrick Two Centuries of Industrial Welfare, Buxton 1977.
Interior and rear not inspected.
Listing NGR: NY9451025779
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 111905
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Raistick, A, Two Centuries of Industrial Welfare, (1974)
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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