Stable Block 200 Metres North of Chesters
STABLE BLOCK 200 METRES NORTH OF CHESTERS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1370562
- Date first listed:
- 15-Apr-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Stable Block 200 Metres North of Chesters
- Statutory Address:
- STABLE BLOCK 200 METRES NORTH OF CHESTERS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1370562
- Date first listed:
- 15-Apr-1969
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 24-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Stable Block 200 Metres North of Chesters
- Statutory Address 1:
- STABLE BLOCK 200 METRES NORTH OF CHESTERS
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:
- STABLE BLOCK 200 METRES NORTH OF CHESTERS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Humshaugh
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 90865 70484
Details
HUMSHAUGH CHESTERS NY 9070 14/226 Stable block 200 15.4.69 metres north of Chesters (previously listed as Stables at Chesters)
GV II*
Stables, 1891 by Norman Shaw. Tooled snecked stone with ashlar dressings; red tile roofs, with lead-domed wooden cupola on gatehouse. Ranges around square yard with central gatehouse on south and open passage at north end of west range to smaller walled yard with coach house to south-west. Modified Baroque style.
2 storeys, 9 bays, symmetrical. Gatehouse front, partly obscured with creeper, has 4 wide rusticated pilasters with attached rusticated columns, at ends and framing rusticated central 3-centred-arched entrance. 10-panel door in similar surround on right. End pilasters terminate in shaped finials. Taller pedimented centre is flanked by large swept brackets, and has end pilasters with carved ornament, and two 2-light leaded windows. Ornate cupola on ridge has open balustrade above clock, and swept dome with tall finial. Flanking 3-bay sections have plinth, string broken forward over paired slit windows and moulded cornice. Taller end bays have end pilasters, strings above and below triplets of 4-pane windows (2 blind on right), cornice and shaped gables with keyed oeil-de-boeuf windows with latticed glazing under small pediments.
Ranges around courtyard each single-storeyed except for projecting gabled 3-bay centrepiece; those at sides have loggias with keyed round arches and three 4-pane windows above; that at rear has ogee-headed doorway flanked by 4-pane casements. Boarded pitching door flanked by slit vents and 4-light window in gable. Single-storey parts have ogee-headed doorways, 4- and 6-pane windows, and round- arched carriage entrances in north part of east range. Walled yard has south gateway with banded rusticated piers; gabled coachhouse to left with boarded doors under elliptical arch with slit above.
Listing NGR: NY9086570484
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 239985
- 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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