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Former Miner's Hall and Institute

A Grade II Listed Building in Stanley, County Durham

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Coordinates

Latitude: 54.8576 / 54°51'27"N

Longitude: -1.7049 / 1°42'17"W

OS Eastings: 419044

OS Northings: 551467

OS Grid: NZ190514

Mapcode National: GBR JDJ8.PG

Mapcode Global: WHC48.S5CD

Plus Code: 9C6WV75W+33

Entry Name: Former Miner's Hall and Institute

Listing Date: 21 January 1987

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1260777

English Heritage Legacy ID: 439551

ID on this website: 101260777

Location: South Moor, County Durham, DH9

County: County Durham

Civil Parish: Stanley

Built-Up Area: Stanley

Traditional County: Durham

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): County Durham

Church of England Parish: Stanley and South Moor

Church of England Diocese: Durham

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Description


NZ 15 SE STANLEY SOUTH MOOR ROAD
(West side)
South Moor
7/192 Former Miner's Hall
and Institute
GV II
Miners' Hall and Institute; now private function suites. Dated 1898 over door.
Snecked sandstone, with brick returns and rear; ashlar dressings; Welsh slate
roof with stone gable coping and brick chimney; lead-covered porch roof.
Chapel style. Gabled front to street 2 storeys, 3 bays, the central wider.
Gabled porch with steps up to central flushed double doors in moulded, round-
headed surround under open pediment and inscription MINERS HALL 1898; quadrant
porch returns have blocked round-headed windows on both floors except for
6-panel door at right on ground floor. Porch entablature, with pulvinated
frieze continuous with pediment bed; 2 paired blocked round-headed windows
above porch flank central lesene with ball finial; similar finials on pinnacles
of pilasters rising from entablature of porch. Round-headed blocked windows in
outer bays. Rear gable chimney. 7-bay returns, the right with central 6-panel
door in stone surround with open segmental pediment; panel with low-relief
INSTITUTE, and small raised segmental pediment above; round-headed brick-
arched windows, blocked except for 4 first-floor left-return stained glass
windows.
Included for historical and social interest.


Listing NGR: NZ1903551524

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