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Latitude: 54.7314 / 54°43'52"N
Longitude: -1.8861 / 1°53'10"W
OS Eastings: 407430
OS Northings: 537380
OS Grid: NZ074373
Mapcode National: GBR HF8Q.GQ
Mapcode Global: WHC4S.0B4Q
Plus Code: 9C6WP4J7+GG
Entry Name: Demesne Hall
Listing Date: 31 January 1967
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1233108
English Heritage Legacy ID: 408556
ID on this website: 101233108
Location: Wolsingham, County Durham, DL13
County: County Durham
Civil Parish: Wolsingham
Built-Up Area: Wolsingham
Traditional County: Durham
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): County Durham
Church of England Parish: Wolsingham
Church of England Diocese: Durham
Tagged with: House
WOLSINGHAM RECTORY LANE
NZ 0737
(North side)
Wolsingham
39/389 Demesne Hall
(formerly listed
31.1.67
as Rectory)
GV II
Rectory, now house. 1848 for Hon. John Grey, rector. Hammer-dressed sandstone
ashlar with tooled margins; Welsh slate roof with ashlar and yellow brick
chimneys. L-plan. Garden front has 2 storeys, 6 windows, those on ground
floor in 3 bowed projections with eaves band and blocking course ; all windows
sashes with fine glazing bars, flat stone sills and plain reveals. Stone-
bracketed eaves support low-pitched hipped roof with ridge chimneys. Left
return has long sash at garden end and central French window; right return
blank to drive, with central renewed door in architrave with acanthus-
bracketed cornice, and sashes to rear rooms. Right servants' wing set back,
one storey and 2 windows under hipped roof with ridge chimney.
Interior: stucco cornice in entrance hall which runs right-to-left; central
rear open-well stair with curved handrail. Moulded cornices, some egg-and-dart,
in ground-floor rooms and some ceiling-roses in leafy patterns. Doors have 6
raised and fielded panels. Window shutters throughout. Some original marble
chimney pieces, with pilasters and cornices, in ground-floor rooms. 5 cast-iron
grates in first-floor rooms.
Listing NGR: NZ0743037380
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