Sands Hall
SANDS HALL, A689
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1322843
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jan-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Sands Hall
- Statutory Address:
- SANDS HALL, A689
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1322843
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jan-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Sands Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- SANDS HALL, A689
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:
- SANDS HALL, A689
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bradbury and the Isle
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 34372 28270
Details
NZ 32 NW BRADBURY AND THE ISLE A689 (South side, off) 6/1 Sands Hall 9/1/68 II
Country house. Circa 1638 (worn sundial, on outbuilding to east, was dated 1640); rebuilt and wings added c.1826. Rendered and painted masonry and brick. C20 plain, concrete-tiled roof and rendered chimneys. Centre block with flanking wings (set back on entrance front and projecting slightly on garden front).
Entrance front has low plinth and raised-and-chamfered quoins. 3-storey, 5-bay main block has central, tetrastyle Ionic portico with replaced 6-panel door in architrave, 4-pane overlight and cornice. Windows have projecting sills: 12-pane sashes to ground and first floors; 6-pane sashes above. Roof has flat-coped gables, shaped kneelers, central ridge and 2 end chimneys. 2-storey, 2-bay wings have 12-pane sashes, roofs hipped over returns, and end chimneys. Right return has 5 closely-spaced windows to each floor; all blocked except for 2 on ground floor. Garden front, with similar fenestration to entrance front, lacks quoins and has central, partly-glazed Cl9 door and overlight in moulded wood surround.
Interior. Mainly early Cl9 fittings. Ground-floor room, to right of entrance hall, has mid C18 features: moulded dado, with wall panels and dentilled cornice above; 8-panel internal window shutters and a marble chimney-piece.
Listing NGR: NZ3437228270
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 112112
- 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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