Reading Room and Cottage Adjoining to Right
READING ROOM AND COTTAGE ADJOINING TO RIGHT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1232064
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Reading Room and Cottage Adjoining to Right
- Statutory Address:
- READING ROOM AND COTTAGE ADJOINING TO RIGHT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1232064
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Reading Room and Cottage Adjoining to Right
- Statutory Address 1:
- READING ROOM AND COTTAGE ADJOINING TO RIGHT
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:
- READING ROOM AND COTTAGE ADJOINING TO RIGHT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Stanhope
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 87303 38890
Details
STANHOPE NEWHOUSE NY 8638 36/246 Reading Room and cottage adjoining to right GV II Reading Room and cottage attached. 1850, but cottage includes one bay of a bastle-type building of circa 1600. Reading Room and left part of cottage coursed squared stone with tooled dressings; right bay rubble with larger boulder plinth. Stone-flagged roof.
Reading Room 1 tall storey, 2 bays. Central ledged and boarded door; flanking 16-pane sashes. Left bay of cottage has similar door and C20 windows in original openings, all with tooled lintels and sills. Right bay has modern windows in new openings. Cottage has end chimneys, the left probably also serving Reading Room. In left-return of Reading Room a segment-arched wagon entrance, with alternating-block jambs, partly filled and C20 boarded doors inserted.
Historical note: built by Thomas Sopwith, agent of The Blackett lead mines, for the use of the miners.
Source: Fordyce History of Durham 1857 II p.674.
Listing NGR: NY8730338890
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 407379
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Fordyce, W, The History and Antiquities of the County Palatinate of Durham, (1857), 674
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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