Waldridge Hall Farmhouse
WALDRIDGE HALL FARMHOUSE, WALDRIDGE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1323095
- Date first listed:
- 01-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Waldridge Hall Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- WALDRIDGE HALL FARMHOUSE, WALDRIDGE ROAD
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- Date:
- 1999-09-08
- Reference:
- IOE01/00708/01
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1323095
- Date first listed:
- 01-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Waldridge Hall Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- WALDRIDGE HALL FARMHOUSE, WALDRIDGE ROAD
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:
- WALDRIDGE HALL FARMHOUSE, WALDRIDGE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Waldridge
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 25959 49786
Details
WALDRIDGE WALDRIDGE ROAD NZ 24 NE (south side, off) 7/68 Waldridge Hall Farmhouse 1.2.67 - II
Large farmhouse. C18 rear wing; main block added c.1796 probably by David Stephenson. Coursed rubble (patches of render on first floor of main block); Welsh slate roofs and rebuilt brick chimney stacks. L-plan.
2-storey, 6-bay main block. Small tetrastyle Tuscan porch. 2 partly-glazed doors under porch. Flanking 12-pane sashes in flat-faced surrounds with projecting sills. Elongated 18-pane sashes above in identical surrounds. 4 delicate cast- iron balconies on first floor windows flanking centre. Eaves cornice with short returns. Low parapet has stepped centre with urn. Roof has coped gables and end stacks. Earlier 2-storey wing on right rear has altered fenestration.
Interior of main block: 6-panel doors in wood architraves; 3-flight, open-well staircase with column-on-vase balusters; staircase hall ceiling with modillion cornice.
Brick porch on rear wing, and extruded addition on rear of main block, are not of special interest.
(B.I. Bagnall, "David Stephenson and Waldridge Hall", Durham Archaeological Journal, Volume I, 1984).
Listing NGR: NZ2595949786
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 109412
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Durham Archaeological Journal in Durham Archaeological Journal, Vol. 1, (1984)
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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