The Friarage is a Grade II listed building in the Stockton-on-Tees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 June 1966. House. 8 related planning applications.
The Friarage
- WRENN ID
- high-chamber-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stockton-on-Tees
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 June 1966
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
NZ 4212 YARM THE SPITAL (east side) 38/580 The Friarage
23.6.66
II
Circa 1770 on the site of a Dominican Friary and possibly incorporating some masonry from earlier house. Stone, stuccoed with a stone balustraded parapet with urn finials. Hipped double span roof of large Welsh slates with two stuccoed stacks in valley. Stone plinth. Three storeys. Entrance front of seven windows arranged 2:3:2. Early C19 sashes with glazing bars in moulded architraves with projecting cills. Central Victorian door with Gothic fanlight in rusticated sur- round under prostyle Doric porch. Similar features on other elevations but irregular back suggests more than one build. North wing, former domestic offices and possibly older in part than main house, part rubble and part painted brick, Victorian interior. Inside most original woodwork remains including doors and windows with enriched architraves, elliptical arches over corridors and a good staircase with three turned balusters to a tread, the middle one twisted, all hav- ing crisply carved quadrooned collars with foliage to bulbs below. Dado panel- ling. Some original plaster cornices, many restored. The Friarage was the home of the Meynell family, prominent local recusants also active in promoting the Stockton and Darlington Railway.
Listing NGR: NZ4204412533
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