Shotley Park

NZ 05 SE CONSETT A 694

(East side) Shotley Bridge 5/11 Shotley Park 1/10/86 II House, now childrens' home. 1842 for Jonathan Richardson, proprietor of Shotley Spa; late C19 and c.1903 additions for the Priestman family;dated on right return bowed projection, below window, with initials JLP and ZNP. Sandstone ashlar, with Welsh slate roof. Main house 2 storeys, 3 bays, with set-back 2-storey, 2-bay left extension. Set-back 2-storey right extensions of one and 3 bays, the latter further set back with tower between; lower additions in front of each extension. Main block: giant corner pilasters support entablature with blocking course; slightly-projecting central bay has 6-panel door and overlight in Tuscan porch with entablature and blocking course; C20 pent glass roof added on all 3 sides on glazed side panels. Early C20 bowed projection at left has 3 large windows with glazing bars and entablature; other windows sashes with fine glazing bars, flat stone lintels and projecting stone sills; first-floor band. Similar sashes in 2-bay left and one-bay right extensions, the left with early C20 conservatory on ground floor under pent roof, the right with one-storey, one-bay addition on ground floor flush with main front, and with bowed projection on right return; tower, to right and behind bowed projection, has pedimented second storey containing paired round-headed windows with impost string and glazing bars; to right the 3-bay addition has ground-floor central half-glazed door flanked by large window at left and sash at right, and 3 bowed oriels above with mullioned- and-transomed windows with glazing bars. Low-pitched roofs, that on main block with 2 low-segmental-headed dormers on left and right pitches and one on front, and 4 panelled, corniced central stone stacks linked by screens. Ridge chimneys on additions. Left return has wooden loggia. Interior not inspected. About to be vacated at time of survey. Sources: G. Neasham, The History and Biographies of West Durham, Durham 1883, 89; Rev. John Ryan, History of Shotley Spa, Sunderland 1841-51.

Listing NGR: NZ0937553361