Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1370276
- Date first listed:
- 15-Apr-1969
- List Entry Name:
- House
- Statutory Address:
- HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1370276
- Date first listed:
- 15-Apr-1969
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- House
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOUSE
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:
- HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Healey
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 02480 55628
Details
HEALEY MINSTERACRES NZ 05 NW 10/140 House (formerly listed 15.4.69 as Minsteracres)
GV II
House, now monastery, 1758, for Silvertop family; 2nd floor added 1811 and north block 1865 (both with dated rainwater heads), more recent extensions to west. Squared tooled stone, tooled-and-margined on 2nd floor; slate roofs. C18 house L-plan. Entrance (south)front in 2 parts: at left is the end of the south wing, 3 storeys, 2 bays. Rusticated quoins, chamfered plinth, sill and 1st floor bands; moulded former eaves cornice below 2nd floor,which has stepped eaves cornice. Ground and 1st floor windows in architraves; later copy inserted between ground floor windows. Plate-glass sashes or C20 casements. Hipped roof. At right is the end of a loggia with paired Tuscan antae. At left is a 2-storey link to Chapel (q.v.). Right return of south wing 5 bays, similar fenestration above loggia, which has later glazing except in 1st bay. Stepped and corniced ridge stack with conjoined shafts. Right part of south front 7 bays, similar fenestration and detail except for glazed double doors in pedimented doorcase in bay 4 and C19 alteration to bays 6 and 7; tall sash window in moulded surround with pedimented hood on brackets. East front, 2 storeys, the lower taller, 8 bays. 4-bay left part has tripartite bay with Tuscan pilasters; projecting 4-bay right part has tall ground-floor sashes in moulded surrounds with pedimented hoods on brackets. North front 7 bays, 5-bay part to right projecting with large segmental bow. Later extensions to right not of interest. Interior: High Victorian decoration in Morning Room, Ballroom (former library) and Chapel (former dining room); painted gilded coffered ceilings; carved chimneypieces by Lough.
Listing NGR: NZ0248055628
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 240510
- 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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