Belfry House is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 April 1952. School, house.

Belfry House

WRENN ID
gentle-niche-birch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Country
England
Date first listed
17 April 1952
Type
School, house
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Belfry House is a former school, now a house, built in 1787 for Reverend John Farrer, the vicar, with a 19th-century wing added later. The building is constructed from thinly-rendered, roughly-coursed sandstone rubble, featuring ashlar quoins and some brick dressings. The pantiled roof has two rows of stone slates at the eaves, stone ridge tiles, a left stone kneeler, and gable coping, along with rendered stacks.

The main block is two stories high and has three bays, with a projecting central three-story tower. To the left, there is a projecting wing that is two low storeys and one bay wide. The tower features a six-pane window under a flat brick arch on the ground floor, a central round-headed window with glazing bars and a brick arch on the first floor, and a cross-loop on the second floor. The flanking bays have paired narrow sash windows under flat brick arches on the ground floor and blocked first-floor windows, with the right one having a flat brick arch. The left wing has a small square window on the ground floor and a central late 19th-century sash window on the first floor, both under flat stone lintels. The tower roof is pyramidal, and there are end chimneys. The right side of the tower has a four-panel door in a later porch.

Inside, there is a dog-leg stair in the tower that reveals carved graffiti on the second flight, along with some two-panel doors.

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