Description

NZ 2215 HIGH CONISCLIFFE THE GREEN
(North side)
18/113 No. 23 (The Old Hall)
6/6/52 (previously listed
as Old Hall Farmhouse)
GV II*
Large house. Circa 1700 house with medieval wing on left rear. Medieval wing
coursed rubble with pantiled roof. House painted roughcast masonry; pantiled
roof with stone-flagged eaves; pebble-dashed chimney stacks.
2-storey, 5-bay house with raised-and-chamfered quoins. 6-panel door, in broken-
pedimented stone surround,in fourth bay. Replaced 12-pane sashes with projecting
sills and wedge lintels. Small square sundial with circular face and replaced
gnomon above door. Blocked oval window, in cable-moulded surround, above sundial.
Steeply-pitched roof with swept eaves, coped gables and shaped kneelers. End
and ridge stacks.
Medieval wing: 1.5-metre thick ground-floor walls; chamfered plinth and remains
of corbelled-out garderobe, with later stone stair cut into side, on left return;
alternating quoins, blocked doorway and small first-floor lancet (possibly ex-
situ) on rear gable end; roof with brick rear end stack.
Narrow 2-storey gabled stair wing, with replaced sash, on rear of house.
Interior: medieval wing has barrel-vaulted ground-floor room with deep arched
splay of former gable-end doorway. House contains a possibly reconstructed
2-flight dogleg staircase with closed string, square-section moulded handrail
and balusters with 3 rounded knops.
2-storey, 2-bay addition on right of house is not of special interest.

Listing NGR: NZ2253715370

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17544937

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Recommended Books

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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas