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Latitude: 54.7071 / 54°42'25"N
Longitude: -1.6345 / 1°38'4"W
OS Eastings: 423650
OS Northings: 534732
OS Grid: NZ236347
Mapcode National: GBR KG00.YF
Mapcode Global: WHC4W.VYVC
Plus Code: 9C6WP948+R6
Entry Name: Whitworth Hall
Listing Date: 30 March 1951
Last Amended: 14 June 1988
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1160067
English Heritage Legacy ID: 112271
ID on this website: 101160067
Location: Whitworth Country Park, Page Bank, County Durham, DL16
County: County Durham
Civil Parish: Spennymoor
Traditional County: Durham
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): County Durham
Church of England Parish: Whitworth
Church of England Diocese: Durham
Tagged with: English country house
NZ 23 SW SPENNYMOOR STANNER'S LANE (East side) Whitworth
5/69 Whitworth Hall 30/3/51 (formerly listed as Whitworth Park) GV II
House. 1891- c.1900 rebuilding, after destruction by fire of c.1845 house, on site of house owned from 1652 by Shafto family. Library wing said to be survivor of early C19 house. Sandstone rubble with ashlar plinth, ashlar and brick dressings; library wing rendered with ashlar plinth and dressings. Roof graduated Lakeland slate with ashlar-corniced brick and rendered chimneys, and roll-moulded lead ridge;rear slope Welsh slate. Irregular plan around rear courtyard. East elevation to garden 2 storeys, 7 bays; library wing set back at left and attached to rear outbuildings which join left return of main range. Front has tetrastyle porch with tryglyph frieze in third bay;half-glazed double doors under fanlight with radiating glazing bars. Ground floor has margined sashes in brick jambs under flat brick arches; projecting stone sills; right end bay blank. first floor has similar jambs and sills to 9-pane sashes (except for casement with Gothic glazing bars over porch). Eaves band lintels below top cornice. Ball finials on small pediment over entrance bay. Ridge chimneys. Set-back, one-storey, 2-bay outbuildings blank to front except for door to pent conservatory. Library wing attached to left end of outbuilding has one high storey, and one blank bay to front; left return has 3 French windows with high overlights. Coped parapet on eaves bands, continuing around recessed quadrant-plan corners. Right return has long service wing. Rear elevation of main range has near-central porch with hipped roof.
Conservatory not of interest.
Listing NGR: NZ2365034732
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