Numbers 2 And 3 (Duke Of Cleveland'S House) And East Extensions

HARTLEPOOL CHURCH WALK NZ 5233 (south side) Headland. 8/58 Nos. 2 and 3 (Duke of 31.3.49 Cleveland's s House) and east extensions.

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House, now Conservative Club; late C17 with early C19 extensions and late C20 porch. Dressed limestone (upper 3 courses renewed); brick extensions, rendered, and stuccoed; Welsh slate roofs have stone gable copings. 2 storeys; 4 bays to No. 2. Renewed sashes with glazing bars, stone lintels and sills. Chamfered quoins to windows and at angles. 2 end stacks. Left extension is set back, with lean-to porch in angle. Easternmost extension (No. 3) has side fronting Church Walk, having external stack with offsets and mid C20 casement window in late C19 opening cut through right-hand part of stack. Doorway cut through middle of stack. East garden front of extension is of ½-octagonal plan with 3 windows to each floor; and hipped shallow-pitched roof. South garden front has 2 windows to each floor. Ground-floor windows of extension are mid C20 fixed lights, those to first floor are late C19 sashes, all in original openings. Right-hand (west) ground-floor room of No. 2, has full-height bolection-moulded and fielded timber panelling of c.1700, incorporating dado and cornice, together with 6-panelled doors, window seats, folding shutters and fixed display cupboard having ½-glazed door with semi-circular head. Panelled overmantel above late C19 iron-framed grate having hood and glazed tile surround. Ballroom to first floor of No. 3 has moulded ceiling cornice and architraves to doorways and niches. Late C19 and late C20 extensions adjoining south sides are not of interest.

Listing NGR: NZ5282333636