Hallgarth House

DURHAM AND FRAMWELLCATE HALLGARTH STREET NZ 2741 NE (West side)

17/211 Hallgarth House 6.5.52 GV II

House, now offices. Mid C18 with C19 wing. Flemish garden wall brick of varying bonds with plinth and painted ashlar dressings and quoins; Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings and ridge, banded brick chimneys with 4 tall yellow pots. 2 storeys, 5 bays; right extension 5 bays; further extension 4 bays. First build has plinth partly covered by raising of pavement level. Quoins to each section. First build at left: central 6-panelled door and overlight recessed in panelled reveal of Tuscan doorcase with high entablature; inserted 4-panel door and 4-pane overlight in fifth bay. Sash windows with glazing bars have sill and lintel bands and moulded stone sills, some renewed. Roof has moulded kneelers. One bay set back slightly at right has slightly lower hipped roof; 4-bay part set further back has 8-panelled door in first bay under voussoirs with keystone. Steeply-pitched roof, hipped over one-bay section to right of main house, also has moulded kneelers. Rear elevation has wooden porch with Tuscan columns and half-glazed door with side lights under panelled frieze.

Listing NGR: NZ2775841932