Holywell House is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 August 1981. Farmhouse.

Holywell House

WRENN ID
half-paling-cobweb
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Country
England
Date first listed
5 August 1981
Type
Farmhouse
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Holywell House is a farmhouse, now a private residence, dating from the mid to late 18th century, with several builds that may incorporate a 17th-century core. The building has undergone alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries. It features narrow handmade brick in an irregular English garden wall bond, with a coursed rubble rear wing. The main section has a renewed pantiled roof, while the cottage has a Welsh slate roof and brick chimney stacks.

The main block is arranged in a 3 + 2 + 3 bay configuration, with an added 2-bay cottage to the right. There is a band between the storeys and a fragment of a straight joint with stone quoins to the right of the center. The openings are under rubbed-brick flat arches, with replaced doors in the third and fifth bays. The windows are mainly replaced 12-pane sashes, with paired sashes in enlarged openings between the two doorways. The cottage to the right was originally one storey but was heightened in the 19th century; it has one 12-pane sash with a stone lintel and sill, while other openings have been altered. The roof is steeply pitched with swept eaves, featuring end and two ridge stacks, and there is tumbled-in brickwork on the left gable.

At the center rear of the main block is a gabled, two-storey rubble wing with scattered sashes, along with an added similar brick wing to the right. There is also a one-storey range of ancillary buildings at right angles on the left bay of the cottage, and altered farm buildings on the right return of the cottage, which are not of special interest.

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Nearby listed buildings

  1. The Flat to North of Holywell Hall Grade II 193 m
  2. Gate Piers and Garden Wall to East of Holywell Hall Grade II 201 m
  3. Holywell Hall and the West Wing Grade II* 211 m
  4. Tudhoe Lodge Grade II 1.1 km
  5. East Park Farmhouse with Outbuildings to Rear Grade II 1.4 km
  6. Sunderland Bridge Grade I 1.5 km
  7. Ha-Ha Wall, to South of Burn Hall Grade II 1.5 km
  8. Burn Hall Grade II* 1.5 km
  9. Water Pump North West of Burn Hall Grade II 1.6 km
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