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Dial House

A Grade II Listed Building in Benfieldside, County Durham

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Coordinates

Latitude: 54.8622 / 54°51'43"N

Longitude: -1.8551 / 1°51'18"W

OS Eastings: 409395

OS Northings: 551943

OS Grid: NZ093519

Mapcode National: GBR HDH6.5T

Mapcode Global: WHC46.G1TX

Plus Code: 9C6WV46V+VW

Entry Name: Dial House

Listing Date: 4 August 1975

Last Amended: 21 January 1987

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1261050

English Heritage Legacy ID: 438827

Also known as: 64 Cutlers' Hall Road
64 and 65 Cutlers' Hall Road

ID on this website: 101261050

Location: Benfieldside, County Durham, DH8

County: County Durham

Electoral Ward/Division: Benfieldside

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Consett

Traditional County: Durham

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): County Durham

Church of England Parish: Benfieldside

Church of England Diocese: Durham

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Description


NZ 05 SE CONSETT CUTLER'S HALL ROAD

(North side)
Benfieldside
5/32 No.64 (Dial House)
4/8/75 (Formerly listed
(as Nos. 64 and 65-Dial
House)
GV II

2 houses, now united to form one. Circa 1820.
Coursed sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and quoins; Welsh slate roof
with stone gable copings, yellow brick chimneys and stone ridge. T-plan. C17
style. One high storey, 3 bays. Central tall gabled porch has paired chamfered
stone windows; flat Tudor-arched surround to boarded door in left return;
blocked stone surround in right return. Flanking bays have chamfered stone
surrounds to 2-light ground-floor windows with central mullions removed, and
corbelled half-dormers with gables; all windows have lattice glazing. All
gables have gabled stone coping on moulded kneelers; projecting blocks support
obelisk finials over porch and dormers. 2 end chimneys.
Large diamond-shaped stone sundial in porch has bronze gnomon; small low-relief
carving of head over crossed laurel branches in left dormer.


Listing NGR: NZ0939551943

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