Chester Lodge
CHESTER LODGE, CHESTER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1323103
- Date first listed:
- 23-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Chester Lodge
- Statutory Address:
- CHESTER LODGE, CHESTER ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1323103
- Date first listed:
- 23-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Chester Lodge
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHESTER LODGE, CHESTER 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:
- CHESTER LODGE, CHESTER ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bournmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 28496 52306
Details
BOURNMOOR CHESTER ROAD NZ 25 SE 285523 (North side, off) 4/3 Chester Lodge GV II
Gate lodge. 1815 by Ignatius Bonomi for John Lambton, later 1st Earl of Durham; mid C19 rear wing. Ashlar sandstone; dressed stone rear wing. Graduated green slate roofs and stone chimney stacks. Originally T-plan with C19 wing added at right-angles on right rear.
Single-storey, wide 2-bay front. Entrance via small square-plan porch set back on right return. Porch has 2-leaf door under segmental head. Main block has tall plinth coped by sill string. Wide canted left bay with 3 windows; right bay with 2 windows. All replaced sashes in segmental-headed openings with stepped square-cut reveals. Moulded eaves band. Projecting bay on left with C20 French windows. Low-pitched roof hipped over canted bay and right return. 2 low ridge stacks with ornamental C19 chimney-pots. Long single- storey C19 wing on rear has hipped roof.
Included for group value. C20 rear addition not of special interest.
Listing NGR: NZ2849652306
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 109349
- 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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