Nesbitt Hall

NESBITT HALL

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1323085
Date first listed:
20-Feb-1967
List Entry Name:
Nesbitt Hall
Statutory Address:
NESBITT HALL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1323085
Date first listed:
20-Feb-1967
List Entry Name:
Nesbitt Hall
Statutory Address 1:
NESBITT HALL

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
NESBITT HALL

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
County Durham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Nesbitt
National Grid Reference:
NZ 45164 36694

Details

NZ 43 NE NESBITT NESBITT

6/30 Nesbitt Hall 20/2/67

GV II

Large farmhouse. Dated 1697, above front doorway, with later alterations. Limestone rubble, renewed Welsh slate roofs and rebuilt brick stacks. T-plan with central stair wing to rear. 3-storey front has scattered fenestration and gabled wing to left which projects to front and rear. Central doorway, in C20 glazed gabled porch, has date 1697 and initials RIB (now hidden by panelling). Small oval window, in moulded rectangular surround, above porch. Late C20 top-hung casements and boarded opening to right below eaves. Blocked 2-light mullioned window set high in right return of gabled wing. Steeply- pitched roof has raised verges with moulded copings and shaped kneelers. Main block has 2 ridge chimneys. Rear has mainly scattered C20 casements and 2 gabled wings with moulded copings, shaped kneelers and truncated finials. Modernised interior retains late C17-early C18 open-well stair of 6 flights and 2 landings with full-height newels, closed string, moulded handrail and turned balusters.

C20 additions to left return and rear not of special interest.

Listing NGR: NZ4516436694

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
109442
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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