Demesne Hall is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 January 1967. Rectory. 4 related planning applications.

Demesne Hall

WRENN ID
veiled-rafter-flax
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Country
England
Date first listed
31 January 1967
Type
Rectory
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Demesne Hall is a rectory that has been converted into a house, built in 1848 for the Hon. John Grey, who was the rector. The building is constructed from hammer-dressed sandstone ashlar with tooled margins and features a Welsh slate roof with ashlar and yellow brick chimneys. It has an L-shaped plan. The garden front has two storeys and six windows, with the ground floor featuring three bowed projections that include an eaves band and a blocking course. All windows are sashes with fine glazing bars, flat stone sills, and plain reveals. The stone-bracketed eaves support a low-pitched hipped roof with ridge chimneys. The left return of the building has a long sash window at the garden end and a central French window, while the right return is blank facing the drive, featuring a central renewed door set in an architrave with an acanthus-bracketed cornice, along with sashes for the rear rooms. The right servants' wing is set back, consisting of one storey with two windows under a hipped roof with a ridge chimney.

Inside, the entrance hall features a stucco cornice that runs from right to left, and there is a central rear open-well staircase with a curved handrail. The ground-floor rooms have moulded cornices, some with egg-and-dart designs, and several ceiling roses in leafy patterns. The doors have six raised and fielded panels, and window shutters are present throughout the building. Some original marble chimney pieces with pilasters and cornices can be found in the ground-floor rooms, and there are five cast-iron grates in the first-floor rooms.

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