QUAKERS' REST

QUAKERS' REST, 20, NORTH GREEN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1338619
Date first listed:: 09-Jan-1981
List Entry Name:: QUAKERS' REST
Statutory Address:: QUAKERS' REST, 20, NORTH GREEN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1338619
Date first listed:: 09-Jan-1981
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Sep-1987
List Entry Name:: QUAKERS' REST
Statutory Address 1:: QUAKERS' REST, 20, NORTH GREEN

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: QUAKERS' REST, 20, NORTH GREEN

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

District:: County Durham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Staindrop
National Grid Reference:: NZ 12586 20626

Details

STAINDROP NORTH GREEN NZ 1220 (North side) 17/160 No. 20 9/1/81 (Quakers' Rest) (formerly listed as The Old Friends Meeting House)

GV II

Society of Friends' Meeting House, now house. Dated 1771 on rear gable kneeler. Replaced house in village of Raby which was demolished around that date for park improvements; circa 1981 alterations. Coursed squared sandstone with quoins and ashlar dressings; roof pantiles with stone eaves, stone gable copings and brick chimney. One storey, 3 bays, with east porch and pent east extension. East elevation facing street has renewed double doors and 5-pane overlight in plain stone surround in pedimented porch; pediment bed continues as coping on returns; left return has sash. Main building has large renewed sash with glazing bars in tooled stone surround in first bay and small rectangular vent at ground level in plain stone surround. Pent extension to right of porch has inserted windows and door and raised eaves. Roof has cyma-moulded kneelers; small square left end chimney. Gabled right return has paired renewed sashes in plain stone surrounds, with blocked opening under flat stone lintel in gable peak, and 2 wide inserted windows in lower part.

Historical note: Jeremiah Dixon, one of the surveyors of the U.S. Mason Dixon Line, is buried in the grave yard, now garden, to the north; he has no headstone, although there are stones marking the graves of members of his family.

Sources: Ross and Mackenzie, View of the County Palatine of Durham, Newcastle 1834, p 197; W. Fordyce, History of the County Palatine of Durham, 1857, p.91.

Listing NGR: NZ1258720627

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Legacy System number:: 111525
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Fordyce, W, The History and Antiquities of the County Palatinate of Durham, (1857), 91
Mackenzie, , Ross, , History and Antiquities of the County Palatinate of Durham, (1834), 197

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.