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Latitude: 54.5623 / 54°33'44"N
Longitude: -1.7807 / 1°46'50"W
OS Eastings: 414278
OS Northings: 518587
OS Grid: NZ142185
Mapcode National: GBR JH0P.89
Mapcode Global: WHC5L.ML89
Plus Code: 9C6WH669+WP
Entry Name: Alwent Hall
Listing Date: 14 September 1966
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1310994
English Heritage Legacy ID: 111044
ID on this website: 101310994
Location: County Durham, DL2
County: County Durham
Civil Parish: Gainford
Traditional County: Durham
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): County Durham
Church of England Parish: Gainford
Church of England Diocese: Durham
Tagged with: House
NZ 11 NW GAINFORD B6274 side, off)
(East side, off)
5/91 Alwent Hall
14.9.66
GV II
Large farmhouse. Late C17 with early C18 or Cl9 additions and alterations.
Sandstone rubble, garden front has some brick infill and dressed sandstone
section to right; mainly renewed pantiled roofs; rendered stone stacks.
Garden front, refenestrated in early Cl9, has dressed quoins. 2-storey, 4-bay
section with later, slightly-projecting 2-storey, 2-bay section to right. Part-
glazed 6-panel door in architrave with keystone in third bay from left; 4-pane
sashes in raised surrounds. Steeply-pitched roof has coped gables with shaped
kneelers; corniced end stacks and similar ridge stack. One-storey, one-bay
addition to right has large 6-pane sash, semicircular bread oven at right return
and steeply-pitched roof with right end stack of brick. Shed attached to right
has boarded door and steeply-pitched roof.
Rear has central projecting gabled, 2-storey staircase wing flanked by later
2-storey outshuts. 12-pane stair window with thick glazing bars and radial head
in raised surround with keystone and impost blocks; gable has moulded coping and
shaped kneelers. Irregular fenestration of outshuts includes two 2-light flat-
faced mullioned windows with 18-pane lights and thick glazing bars; several 6-pane
sashes in raised surrounds. Two-pitch roof has coped gables with shaped kneelers.
Interior: early-mid C18 panelling in several rooms; Entrance Hall has built-in
cupboards, 6-panel doors and 2-panel window shutters. Two-flight, cut-string
dogleg staircase with two turned balusters per tread and wreathed and ramped
handrail.
Listing NGR: NZ1427818587
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