Tudhoe House And Laburnum Cottage And Walls Attached

NZ 23 NE SPENNYMOOR THE GREEN (North side) Tudhoe Village

2/57 (inset) Nos. 81 and 83 (Tudhoe House and 30.3.51 Laburnum Cottage) and walls attached GV II

House, said to have been built as school; now 2 houses. 1820 rebuilding on site of earlier house, probably incorporating early fabric. Painted render with plinth and painted ashlar dressings; roof Welsh slate with stone gable and parapet copings, and rendered chimneys with renewed brick bands and ashlar cornice. Ashlar and rendered walls; ashlar piers. Gothic style. Double pile plan. 2 storeys, 6 irregular bays. Narrow first bay has step up to C20 door in Tudor-arched surround with dripmould. Remaining 5 bays symmetrical; steps up to central door, with Gothic glazing bars to upper half, recessed in double-chamfered surround. 2-light windows, and single light over first-bay door, all have Gothic glazing bars and label moulds. Roof has wide gable copings, that at right truncated below apex, and 4 ridge chimneys, the outer at left set on gable, the right end chimney on recessed gable. 4 gabled dormers have sashes with vertical glazing bars. Right return shows double steps up to C20 door in gabled 2-storey central porch. Ashlar-coped dwarf wall on steps. Rear elevation shows rebuilt rear wing to Laburnum house: large Gothic-style stair window with glazing bars; some C20 windows; 2 gabled roof dormers.

Interior shows longitudinal central passage, now blocked by division between houses. Main stair in narrow open well, with round handrail on stick balusters, and wreath and curtail. Second stair in No. 83 has grip handrail. Gothic overlight with glazing bars and one opening light, to door across passage at foot of second stair. No. 81 at right has some original stucco ceiling decoration, and slender dado rail; much renewed and added. Some 6-panel doors in fluted architraves with Tudor-rose paterae. No. 83 at left shows one massive chamfered beam; 2-panel door to cellar. Cellar of No. 83 flat-ceiled, with overlapping boards; that of No. 81 brick-vaulted.

Forecourt walls break forward from ends of house, and enclose forecourt. Side walls ashlar, front wall painted render; tall square ashlar piers terminate front wall and have plinths, and pyramidal coping on cornices; entrance to No. 83 formed by second altered pier; break in front wall forms entrance to No. 81.

Historical note; at one time the home of the managers of the Iron and Coal Company, and the property of the Salvin family.

Source: H.C. Surtees, The History of the Parishes of Tudhoe and Sunnybrow, (Mainsforth), 1925.

Listing NGR: NZ2588435690