Description

SEATON DELAVAL DOUBLE ROW
NZ 27 NE
(North side)
4/85 Head Office/
Showroom of Delcor
Furniture Ltd.
II
House, c.1830. Tooled stone front with tooled-and-margined quoins and dressings,
other walls rubble; Welsh slate roof. T-plan. South elevation 2 storeys, 5 bays,
symmetrical. Plinth, 1st floor band, eaves cornice. 2 steps up to central
renewed door under 8-pane overlight, in raised surround with Tuscan pilasters and
moulded cornice. 20-pane sash windows, those on ground floor with moulded panels
between sills and plinth. Hipped roof. Left return shows tripartite sash, and
20-pane sash above, in raised stone surrounds. Right return shows 16-pane sash
in similar surround on 1st floor. Rear wing has hip-ended roof and reduced ridge
stack.

Interior: moulded cornices, panelled shutters. Open-well stair in rear wing has
stick balusters, moulded ramped and wreathed handrail, curtail step and carved
tread ends. Similar stairhead balustrade.

Originally mine owner's house for the adjacent colliery (now removed), later the
NCB pay offices for the area.

Listing NGR: NZ2985076160

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26293245

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Recommended Books

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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)