New College Hall

New College Hall, B5345

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1336029
Date first listed:
09-Mar-1967
List Entry Name:
New College Hall
Statutory Address:
New College Hall, B5345
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1336029
Date first listed:
09-Mar-1967
Date of most recent amendment:
09-Aug-1984
List Entry Name:
New College Hall
Statutory Address 1:
New College Hall, B5345

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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.

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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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
New College Hall, B5345

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
St. Bees
National Grid Reference:
NX 96919 12113

Details

This List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 07/11/2017

NX 91 SE (INSET),
8/73

ST BEES,
B5345 (West side),
New College Hall

(Formerly listed as Library to south-east of Priory Church chancel, previously listed as Part of Priory St Mary and Church of St Bega)

09.03.67.

GV
II
Library when surveyed. 1863 by Butterfield in Gothic style. Rough-dressed sandstone blocks with dressed quoins and bands on plinth; concave eaves course. Scalloped ridge to graduated slate roof; stone coping, kneelers, and apex cross to south ridge. Projecting stone chimney to centre on east side. Two storeys; single-storey bay window to north return. Entrance to left on west side has pointed head. Mullioned ground-floor windows to west side and south return each have two lights with trefoiled ogee heads; single first-floor window to each return has similar lights with quatrefoils to spandrels under pointed containing arch. First-floor west has four windows, three with inner trefoil heads.

Listing NGR: NX9691912114

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Legacy System number:
76171
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Hyde, M, The Buildings of England: Cumbria, (2010)

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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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