Daniel Adamsons Coach House
DANIEL ADAMSONS COACH HOUSE, BYERLEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1365641
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1980
- List Entry Name:
- Daniel Adamsons Coach House
- Statutory Address:
- DANIEL ADAMSONS COACH HOUSE, BYERLEY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1365641
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1980
- List Entry Name:
- Daniel Adamsons Coach House
- Statutory Address 1:
- DANIEL ADAMSONS COACH HOUSE, BYERLEY 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:
- DANIEL ADAMSONS COACH HOUSE, BYERLEY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Shildon
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 22443 26401
Details
NZ 22 NW SHILDON BYERLEY ROAD (East side)
4/68 Daniel Adamson's 20/2/80 Coach House
GV II
Former railway coach house. Circa 1831 for Daniel Adamson. Hammer-dressed sandstone and renewed Welsh Slate roof. Tall, single-storey building with flush quoins. Gabled front has blocked semicircular-arched opening with flush voussoirs and impost bands. Inserted late C20 boarded door with replaced 4-pane sash above. Roof has renewed coped gables and shaped footstones. 2-bay left return has low plinth and 2 similar blind arched openings. Gabled rear has similar blocked openings.
In 1827 Daniel Adamson pioneered a horse-drawn railway coach, Perseverance, which ran between Shildon and Darlington. In 1831, when the Surtess Railway was opeded, Adamson built the coach house to act as both a station and a shed. The building is probably the earliest surviving railway coach house in the world.
(R.Corkin, Shilton, Cradle of the Railways, 1975)
Listing NGR: NZ2244326401
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 112184
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Shildon, S D R, Shildon Urban Rail Trails, (1975)
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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