Description

NZ 05 SE CONSETT SHOTLEY GROVE ROAD
(West side)
Shotley Bridge
5/79 (inset) Grove House and
Azalea Court
GV II
Formerly Shotley Grove House. House, now 2 separate houses. Dated 1826 on top
of pediment (owner's information), for Joseph Annandale, paper manufacturer.
Pinkish sandstone ashlar front with plinth; other elevations yellow sandstone
rubble with quoins and ashlar dressings; some tooled; roof of thick graduated
dark grey slates, with part of rear wing roof renewed in Welsh slate. L-plan.
South garden front 2 storeys, 5 bays. Door of 6 panels over 3 vertical beaded
panels, with patterned fanlight, in Tuscan surround with block capitals
supporting open pediment, in second bay. 16-pane sashes in plain reveals have
fine glazing bars and projecting stone sills; giant corner pilasters support
eaves band, panelled over pilasters, and gutter cornice which breaks forward
over pilasters. Low-pitched hipped roof; no chimneys visible. Right return 2
storeys, one bay, with semicircular bowed projection on ground floor containing
curved French window under gutter cornice and blocking course; sash window
above. Irregular set-back rear wing, with round-headed stair window. Left
return 2 storeys, 3 bays, with similar ground-floor projection containing curved
sash window. Set-back rear wing 2 storeys, 6 ground-floor windows; 3 first-
floor windows and right round-headed stair window. All windows have glazing
bars, those to stairs intersecting; tooled surrounds to returns of main block;
flat lintels and projecting sills in rear wing. Extruded rear porch has C20
6-panelled door and sash window with glazing bars.
Interior: narrow open-well, open-string stair has rounded handrail on slender
stick balusters, with wreath and curtail; left ground-floor room has moulded
stucco cornice, and chimney-piece with ribbon and foliage decoration; right
room has moulded stucco wall panels, cornice with vine decoration, and wood
chimney-piece with paired Ionic pilasters and green and white Wedgwood corner
medallions. 6-panel doors, fluted architraves with block corners, and panelled
window shutters throughout.

Listing NGR: NZ0870852050

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26533478

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Recommended Books

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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)