Doe Park
DOE PARK, B6277
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1323079
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Doe Park
- Statutory Address:
- DOE PARK, B6277
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1323079
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Doe Park
- Statutory Address 1:
- DOE PARK, 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:
- DOE PARK, 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 00576 20237
Details
HUNDERTHWAITE B6277 NZ 02 SW (West side,off) 11/75 Doe Park 12/1/67 II* Country house. Circa 1700 with later addition. Dressed yellow sandstone with grey sandstone dressings. Stone-flagged roof and stone chimney stacks. Tall main block with low addition to right.
Symmetrical garden front: 2 storeys plus basement, 5 bays; centre bay breaks forward. Basement has flush quoins; centre bay and ends, above string course, have raised-and-chamfered quoins. All openings in architraves. 8-step concave-plan perron stair, supported on segmental arches, leads to central doorway with 5-panel double doors and 3-pane overlight, pulvinated frieze and cornice. Basement: 2 side-hung 9-pane casements, with thick glazing bars, to left of stair; C20 solid gabled porch and replaced 6-pane sash to right. Replaced 12-pane sashes above string course. Eaves cornice and solid panelled parapet break forward over centre bay. Steeply-pitched roof with coped gables. Stepped left end and ridge stacks; corniced right end stack.
One-storey addition has a 4-pane sash, steeply-pitched roof and right end stack.
Narrow returns of main block have 2-pane sashes, some blocked, in projecting flat-faced surrounds.
6-bay rear has raised-and-chamfered quoins. All openings in architraves. Basement has altered openings: solid gabled C20 porch in bay 5 conceals centre- hinged 2-leaf, 3-panel door; 8-pane sashes above with thick glazing bars, several are fixed and one is blocked. Eaves raised, possibly replacing a parapet. Roof with coped gabled and shaped kneelers.
Plain interior. Several 3-panel doors. Large, square stone fireplace in basement. Dogleg staircase to rear has closed, moulded string, thin turned balusters and a moulded grip handrail. 4 adzed, principal-rafter trusses with pegged collars, 2rows of trenched purlins and supplementary principals to rear span.
Listing NGR: NZ0057620237
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 111240
- 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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