Latitude: 54.5274 / 54°31'38"N
Longitude: -1.8009 / 1°48'3"W
OS Eastings: 412983
OS Northings: 514694
OS Grid: NZ129146
Mapcode National: GBR HJV2.XV
Mapcode Global: WHC5S.9GPL
Plus Code: 9C6WG5GX+WJ
Entry Name: Ovington Hall and Adjacent Cottage
Listing Date: 30 July 1987
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1121669
English Heritage Legacy ID: 111706
ID on this website: 101121669
Location: Ovington, County Durham, DL11
County: County Durham
Civil Parish: Ovington
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): County Durham
Church of England Parish: Wycliffe St Mary
Church of England Diocese: Leeds
Tagged with: Building
NZ 11 SW OVINGTON OVINGTON VILLAGE
(West end)
7/117 Ovington Hall and
30.7.87 adjacent cottage
GV II
House and cottage. Probably C17, extended and altered in C18. Rubble with
cut dressings, partly rendered; graduated stone slate roofs. Plan: original
house has east range incorporating cottage, two rear wings and ballroom
extension to north-west.
South front in two sections: 2 storeys, 2 + 4 bays. 2-bay rendered left
part is original house: central half-glazed door with 3-pane overlight in
raised tooled stone surround with ashlar panel over; 4-pane sash windows.
Steeply-pitched roof with coped gables on moulded kneelers and end stacks,
left stepped-and-corniced, right rebuilt in grey brick on old base. Right
part irregular. C20 French window and doorway, boarded door at right end
and 12-pane sashes in stone surrounds, some renewed. Coped right gable on
moulded kneelers, with end stack; stepped-and-corniced ridge stack.
Rear: Original house has two wings with stacks on gables. Earlier right
wing has fielded-panel door and sash windows in raised stone surrounds.
Added right ballroom extension with a single tall 24-pane sash in a similar
surround, and coped left gable on moulded kneelers, with end stack.
Interior: original house has heavy transverse ceiling beams. Ballroom has
basket-arched proscenium with Greek key frieze and imposts with paterae,
contemporary chimneypiece, folding fielded-panel shutters on butterfly hinges,
cornice with egg-and-dart, and ornamental ceiling rose.
Roof structure not seen, and may be of interest.
Listing NGR: NZ1298314694
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