Woden Croft
WODEN CROFT, B6277
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1323058
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Woden Croft
- Statutory Address:
- WODEN CROFT, B6277
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1323058
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Woden Croft
- Statutory Address 1:
- WODEN CROFT, B6277
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:
- WODEN CROFT, B6277
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hunderthwaite
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 00801 20764
Details
HUNDERTHWAITE B6277 NZ 02 SW (East side, off) 11/69 Woden Croft II House, formerly a private academy run by Edward Simpson. Dated 1792 (on front door lintel) with additions dated 1810 (on rear door lintel) and later C19 rear additions. Dressed sandstone. Stone-flagged roof and stone chimney stacks. Main block with set-back wing attached to right.
2-storey main block. Originally 5 bays with projecting 3-bay centre; left bay demolished in early C20. 3-bay centre has flush quoins and central partly- glazed 4-panel door in flush surround; door lintel inscribed ENS 1792. Doorway flanked by 6-pane casments with flush sills and wedge lintels. 3 identical windows above. Right bay has flush quoins; canted bay window; tripartite window above with similar casements. Roof, hipped over right bay, has coped left gable. 2 ridge stacks with top bands and water tables.
2-storey, one-bay wing has flush quoins. 2-light windows, with similar casements, to both floors. Low-pitched hipped roof. Tall lateral stack, above right return, with top band and water table. Remains of semicircular-plan bread oven to rear of right return.
Altered interior: dogleg staircase, of 2 flights plus landing rail, with moulded ramped handrail on thin turned balusters. Several imported 2-panel doors, with butterfly hinges, in architraves.
Glazed late C20 conservatory, attached to left return, is not of special interest.
Listing NGR: NZ0080120764
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 111234
- 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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