Quarry Hill and Adjoining Outbuilding
QUARRY HILL AND ADJOINING OUTBUILDING, WOLSINGHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1323203
- Date first listed:
- 10-May-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Quarry Hill and Adjoining Outbuilding
- Statutory Address:
- QUARRY HILL AND ADJOINING OUTBUILDING, WOLSINGHAM ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1323203
- Date first listed:
- 10-May-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Quarry Hill and Adjoining Outbuilding
- Statutory Address 1:
- QUARRY HILL AND ADJOINING OUTBUILDING, WOLSINGHAM 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:
- QUARRY HILL AND ADJOINING OUTBUILDING, WOLSINGHAM ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Brancepeth
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 21545 38662
Details
BRANCEPETH WOLSINGHAM ROAD NZ 23 NW (North side, off) 5/42 Quarry Hill and 10/5/67 adjoining outbuilding GV II* House and outbuilding. Early-mid C17 house, restored and extended in later C19. C19 outbuilding. Coursed sandstone rubble with squared dressings. Graduated stone-tiled roofs and C19 dressed stone chimney stacks. T-plan C17 house with 2 parallel C19 ranges on rear of stair wing. L-plan outbuilding on right face of rear wing. Entrance front 2 storeys and attics, 3 bays. 3-storey gabled central porch with moulded C19 doorway under hoodmould. Mainly C19 mullioned-and-transomed windows under hoodmoulds: tall paired cross windows on ground floor of outer bays with 3-light windows above. Porch has restored 4-light window on first floor and 2-light windows on returns under a string; original small 3-light mullioned window above. Gabled dormers, above outer bays, have similar original windows. Dormers and porch have coped gables with ball finials. Steeply-pitched roof has coped gables and shaped footstones with ball finials. Corniced left end stack. Large stepped external chimney on right return with identical stack. Three original 2-light windows under hoodmoulds on left return; several original 3-light windows on left rear and altered stair wing. Extruded cross-gabled C19 bay projection on right rear. 2-storey, 3-bay parallel rear wings with scattered sashes, steeply-pitched roofs and similar stacks. One-storey, 2-bay extensions on rear gables of both wings. One-storey L-plan outbuilding: 6-bay front range has 2 boarded doors, 3 sashes, C20 garage opening at right and a pitched roof with left end and ridge stacks. Similar short return section at right-angles on rear. Interior of C17 house altered in late C19 with Jacobean-style fittings. House retains a complete roof of heavy adzed upper crucks. Outbuildings included for group value. Late C20 conservatory on left face of rear wing is not of interest.
Listing NGR: NZ2154538662
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 109923
- 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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