Harbour House is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 February 1987. A Georgian Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Harbour House
- WRENN ID
- odd-postern-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 February 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Period
- Georgian
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Harbour House is a farmhouse dating from the early to mid-18th century for the rear range and the late 18th century for the front range. It is constructed of coursed rubble with ashlar dressings, featuring graduated green slates on the front and Welsh slates on the rear range, along with ashlar chimney stacks. The building has a T-plan, with the rear range positioned at right angles to the front.
The front range consists of two storeys plus a basement and has three bays. It features raised-and-chamfered quoins, plinth and sill bands, and a central doorway accessed by six stone steps with cast-iron handrails and stick balusters. The doorway includes a six-panel door and a fanlight with radial glazing, all set within an open-pedimented stone doorcase supported by engaged Roman Ionic columns on pedestals. The windows are framed in rusticated surrounds, with iron bars in the basement and 16-pane sashes above. The eaves cornice and parapet are topped with a pediment over the central bay, which has a tympanum with brick infill and a blind oculus in a moulded stone surround. The parapet features low end piers with scrolled finials and the roof is steeply pitched and hipped. Lateral stacks have top bands.
On the left return, there is a small carved head in an oval shape on the mid-wall quoin at the junction between the front block and an added two-storey, one-bay rear outshut. This outshut has early 19th-century fenestration, including two wedge lintels inscribed "DAIRY" and one projecting sill inscribed "CHEESEROOM." The set-back two-storey, two-bay rear range has a steeply pitched catslide roof with slightly swept eaves and a coped rear gable. A large 15-pane round-arched stair window is located on the right return of the rear range.
Inside the front block, the entrance passage and flanking ground-floor rooms feature early 19th-century plaster ceilings, panelled window shutters, and six-panel doors with wood architraves.
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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
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