Southill Hall
SOUTHILL HALL, HOLMHILL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1323089
- Date first listed:
- 01-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Southill Hall
- Statutory Address:
- SOUTHILL HALL, HOLMHILL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1323089
- Date first listed:
- 01-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Southill Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- SOUTHILL HALL, HOLMHILL LANE
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:
- SOUTHILL HALL, HOLMHILL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Kimblesworth and Plawsworth
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 27260 47865
Details
KIMBLESWORTH AND PLAWSWORTH HOLMHILL LANE NZ 24 NE (West side, off) 7/42 Southill Hall 1/2/67 (previously included in the Civil Parish of Plawsworth) II
Small country house. Mid C18; largely rebuilt 1821 by John Dobson for Thomas Fenwick. Ashlar sandstone and graduated green slate roofs. Square-plan main block with T-plan service range on north. Plain classical style.
Main block 2-storeys,3 x 3 bays. Low plinth; corners break forward; tall parapet above cornice with balustraded sections. West front: wide entrance embrasure, in projecting surround with cornice and blocking course, leads to replaced door and surround. Sashes, with intermediate glazing bars removed and square-cut reveals, are elongated on ground floor. Narrow 2-storey canted bay on south. Later single-storey projecting bay and wide 2-storey canted bay on east. Low-pitched hipped roof hidden by parapet. Ridge stacks with top bands.
Slightly taller service range: 3 storeys; 3-bay inner returns and 7 bays across rear. Sashes with square-cut reveals: 12-pane below; small 6-pane sashes on second floor. Low-pitched hipped roof and tall corniced ridge stacks.
Interior of main block: 6-panel doors in wood architraves; 3-flight open-well, cut-string staircase with handrail on ornamental cast-iron balusters; ground- floor rooms with simple classical cornices.
Single-storey outbuildings, enclosing yard on rear of service range, are not of special interest.
Listing NGR: NZ2726047865
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 109385
- 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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