STOOPERDALE OFFICES

STOOPERDALE OFFICES, BRINKBURN ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1389488
Date first listed:: 14-Nov-2001
List Entry Name:: STOOPERDALE OFFICES
Statutory Address:: STOOPERDALE OFFICES, BRINKBURN ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1389488
Date first listed:: 14-Nov-2001
List Entry Name:: STOOPERDALE OFFICES
Statutory Address 1:: STOOPERDALE OFFICES, BRINKBURN ROAD

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:: STOOPERDALE OFFICES, BRINKBURN ROAD

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

District:: Darlington (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: NZ 28081 15843

Details

907/0/10015 BRINKBURN ROAD 14-NOV-01 (North side) Stooperdale Offices

GV II

Office building. 1911. Designed by William Bell for the North-Eastern railway Company. Ferro-concrete framing clad with Normanton brick and terracotta. Welsh slate roofs and various tall square chimney stacks. Baroque Revival style. Main facade has 3 storey, 7 window central block with setback 2 1/2 storey 7 window wings and beyond projecting 3 storey, 4 window pavilions. All windows are glazing bar sashes. Central block has banded rustication and central double doors within an elaborate classical surround, set beneath a large porte corchere supported on sets of 3 Roman Doric columns at each corner. Above central 3 windows surmounted by 4 columned portico with pediment rising through both upper floors. Central 3 windows have prominent terracotta surrounds and remaining sash windows have plain surrounds with elongated keystones. Central block topped with bold dentilated cornice and blustraded parapet, pediment bears date "1911". Flanking wings have slightly projecting central windows set in elaborate rusticated door surrounds, with 3 sashes to either side, above 7 sashes all with projecting keystones. Above a plain brick parapet with 2- and 3-light dormer windows behind. Pavilions have pairs of central windows with rusticated surrounds surmounted by segmental pediments, and beyond single sashes in plain surrounds. Upper central windows flanked by rusticated pilasters, all sashes have prominent keystones. Pavilions topped with bold cornices.

Listing NGR: NZ2808015850

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 488170
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.