Orangery, Walls and Gate Piers to East of Croxdale Hall
ORANGERY, WALLS AND GATE PIERS TO EAST OF CROXDALE HALL, CROXDALE HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1323221
- Date first listed:
- 16-Oct-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Orangery, Walls and Gate Piers to East of Croxdale Hall
- Statutory Address:
- ORANGERY, WALLS AND GATE PIERS TO EAST OF CROXDALE HALL, CROXDALE HALL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1323221
- Date first listed:
- 16-Oct-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Orangery, Walls and Gate Piers to East of Croxdale Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- ORANGERY, WALLS AND GATE PIERS TO EAST OF CROXDALE HALL, CROXDALE HALL
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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:
- ORANGERY, WALLS AND GATE PIERS TO EAST OF CROXDALE HALL, CROXDALE HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Croxdale and Hett
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 27641 37796
Details
CROXDALE AND HETT CROXDALE HALL NZ 2737 17/54 Orangery, walls and 16/10/75 gate piers to east of Croxdale Hall (formerly listed in Sunderland Bridge C.P.) II Orangery, garden walls and gate piers, c.1765. Orangery narrow hand-made brick in irregular. English garden wall bond with stone dressings; ridged concrete roof tiles. Walls have similar brick inner face, coursed rubble outer face and flat stone copings. Similar brick gate piers. North, east and west walls enclose a c.3.7-hectare garden which slopes down from north to south; south side bounded by a serpentine lake; Orangery situated at centre of north wall; pair of gate piers near north-east corner. Palladian style. 2-storey Orangery, of 1 + 3 + 1 bays, has ashlar plinth and raised quoins. Central loggia of 3 tall round arches with raised stone surrounds, impost blocks and keystones. Outer bays, now gardeners' cottages, have Venetian windows with replaced sashes on ground floor and Diocletian windows above with triple keystones. Tall parapet with corniced coping above stone band. Steeply-pitched roof with stone-coped gables and brick end stacks. Lower 2-storey rear with altered fenestration. Large stone flags laid in diamond pattern on floor behind loggia. Very tall garden walls. Double-skin, c.370-metre long north wall was formerly heated. Each half, flanking the Orangery, is canted out at regular intervals to form 4 triangular-plan projections (their purpose to increase the growing area and stabilise the unbuttressed wall). 70-metre long west wall has round- arched doorway to north, large central round archway with chamfered surround on outer face and quadrant ramp down at south. 100-metre long east wall has pair of tall square-plan gate piers with pyramidal stone caps at north. Rubble continuation at south end of east wall and altered lean-to sheds on outer face of north wall are not of special interest.
Listing NGR: NZ2764137796
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 109935
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 7 Cleveland Part 13 Durham Part 41 Tyne and Wear,
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 7 Cleveland Part 13 Durham Part 41 Tyne and Wear,
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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