Hardwicke Hall Manor Hotel
Hardwicke Hall Manor Hotel, Hesleden Road, Hartlepool, TS27 4PA
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1323084
- Date first listed:
- 06-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Hardwicke Hall Manor Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- Hardwicke Hall Manor Hotel, Hesleden Road, Hartlepool, TS27 4PA
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1323084
- Date first listed:
- 06-Aug-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Hardwicke Hall Manor Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- Hardwicke Hall Manor Hotel, Hesleden Road, Hartlepool, TS27 4PA
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:
- Hardwicke Hall Manor Hotel, Hesleden Road, Hartlepool, TS27 4PA
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Monk Hesleden
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 45072 39189
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 05/11/2018
NZ 43 NE
6/27
MONK HESLEDEN
HESLEDEN ROAD (north side, off)
Hardwicke Hall Manor Hotel
(formerly listed as Hardwick Hall Hotel, previously listed as Hardwick Hall)
6/8/52
II
Medium-sized country house now an hotel. Early-mid C18 with later additions incorporating an older, possibly C16, core. Hand-made brick covered with incised render, Welsh slate roofs and rendered chimneys. L-plan.
Two-storey entrance front has low plinth and three giant Tuscan pilasters (at angles and to right of centre) dividing facade into three plus two bays. C20 glazed door and eight-pane overlight in elaborate moulded doorcase with broken scrolled pediment on consoles in third bay. C20 leaded casements in deep reveals have moulded surrounds and segmental heads with triple dropped keystones. Tall panelled parapet has end ball finials. Two-span low-pitched hipped roof with flat tops and ridge chimneys. Left return has three-storey, five-bay centre and two-storey, projecting end bays. Similar door and window arrangement. Central part-glazed door and three-pane overlight in moulded surround. Windows mainly replaced except for two first floor 12-pane sashes with thick glazing bars. End bays have round-arched niche to each storey: right bay niches contain statues; lower niche of left bay filled in. Ovolo-moulded coping stepped over centre and ramped above end bays.
Interior remodelled in lateC19-early C20. Several c.1.0 to 1.5 metre thick stone walls in cellar. Second-floor former chapel has two stoups and traces of mid C18 panelling and modillioned cornice behind C20 cupboards. Priest's hole, said to date from C16, in garret behind internal chimney breast.
Late C20 addition to right of entrance front and detached outbuildings to rear not of special interest.
Listing NGR: NZ4507239189
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 109439
- 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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