Head Office/Showroom Of Delcor Furniture Limited

SEATON DELAVAL DOUBLE ROW NZ 27 NE (North side) 4/85 Head Office/ Showroom of Delcor Furniture Ltd. II House, c.1830. Tooled stone front with tooled-and-margined quoins and dressings, other walls rubble; Welsh slate roof. T-plan. South elevation 2 storeys, 5 bays, symmetrical. Plinth, 1st floor band, eaves cornice. 2 steps up to central renewed door under 8-pane overlight, in raised surround with Tuscan pilasters and moulded cornice. 20-pane sash windows, those on ground floor with moulded panels between sills and plinth. Hipped roof. Left return shows tripartite sash, and 20-pane sash above, in raised stone surrounds. Right return shows 16-pane sash in similar surround on 1st floor. Rear wing has hip-ended roof and reduced ridge stack.

Interior: moulded cornices, panelled shutters. Open-well stair in rear wing has stick balusters, moulded ramped and wreathed handrail, curtail step and carved tread ends. Similar stairhead balustrade.

Originally mine owner's house for the adjacent colliery (now removed), later the NCB pay offices for the area.

Listing NGR: NZ2985076160