Shellom House And Outbuilding, And Garden Wall Attached

NZ 23 SE SPENNYMOOR SOUTH VIEW (North side) Kirk Merrington

6/67 Shellom House and outbuilding, and garden wall attached GV II

House with outbuilding and garden wall attached. Probably early C18, enlarged c.1800. House front rendered, with ashlar plinth and dressings: Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings and brick chimneys: returns and rear thinly- rendered rubble. Outbuilding rubble with pantiled roof. Wall rubble with flat stone coping. House gable end to street; wall L-plan along street front and returning along front of garden.

House 2 storeys, 3 bays: outbuilding at right one storey, 3 bays. House has near-central 6-panel door, upper panels glazed, under segmental arch in architrave with corner paterae, recessed under segmental arch. Late C19 sashes in outer bays and at centre of first floor have projecting stone sills. Roof has end gable copings on cyma-moulded kneelers, and banded end brick chimneys. Rear full-width outshut under catslide roof. Outbuilding at right has 4-pane sash in first wider bay, and paired 9-pane lights in 2 right bays.

Garden wall,c.2 to 2.5 metres high, as land slopes down in front of house, has segmental-headed stone arch with voussoirs near house. Inner face of wall has some survivors of a series of iron rings used in the preparation of carpets, probably in the early C19 when Gilbert Henderson established a 'factory' in the village, which was already a centre of the weaving industry. His firm moved to Durham and eventually became the firm of Hugh Mackay of the C20.

Source: Walter Shea, Carpet Making in Durham City, (Durham County Library Publications No. 17), Durham 1984; and information Mr. Charlton of Shellom House.

Listing NGR: NZ2619531107