Rancho Del Rio is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1987. School, restaurant, public house.

Rancho Del Rio

WRENN ID
muted-hammer-candle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Country
England
Date first listed
5 June 1987
Type
School, restaurant, public house
Source
Historic England listing

Description

STANHOPE A689 (North side) NY 8738 Ireshopeburn 36/104 Rancho del Rio

GV II

School, now restaurant and public house. 1854, for W. Beaumont, M.P., 'aided by subscriptions from his agents, miners and others for the education of all religious denominations' according to resited inscription stone. Later porch. Coursed squared sandstone with chamfered plinth, pecked quoins and ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings. Symmetrical. Main block one storey, 11 bays, the central projecting, quoined and gabled with lower gabled porch. Slightly set-back one-storey, one-bay wings. Diagonally-boarded central door with elaborate hinges under 2-centred arch with voussoirs; trefoil- pierced bargeboards on porch gable. Flanking 5-bay sections have large 16-pane sashes, with ventilators replacing some panes,with flat stone lintels and projecting stone sills. Altered windows in wings. Roof gable copings on main block are chamfered and rest on moulded kneelers (one lost); flat copings on wings. 4 corniced ashlar ridge chimneys, with tall red pots except for right which is truncated.

Listing NGR: NY8737338517

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