Description

BISHOP AUCKLAND

NZ1726 FRONT STREET, West Auckland
634-1/9/187 (North side (off))
East range to rear of The Old Manor
House Hotel

GV II

Formerly known as: West Auckland Brewery FRONT STREET West
Auckland.
Outbuilding to manor house (now The Old Manor House Hotel,
qv), probably stables and lofts. Later part of brewery. Now
leisure complex and hotel bedrooms. Late medieval with C17
left addition, and C19 and C20 alterations.
MATERIALS: rubble with ashlar quoins and dressings. Concrete
tile roof with stone gable copings.
EXTERIOR: west elevation facing yard. 2 storeys, 6:4 bays.
Left part has irregular fenestration with small windows and
renewed glazing, boarded door and small window at right end,
and left end bays obscured by pent C20 addition containing
stair to upper floors.
Staight join to first build at left which has slight batter to
walls. Chamfered surround with elliptical head under relieving
arch to door at left, now partly blocked and with window
inserted. To right of this a flat stone lintel over an old
ledged boarded door, with chamfered surround to small
rectangular light immediately adjacent at right. Second
elliptical-headed chamfered doorway to right of this under
relieving arch, and second small chamfered light at right.
Iron stair from right end to central half-glazed first-floor
door. Two 9-pane lights at left, the first inserted in blocked
door opening, have C19 glazing bars and are top-hung. Large
quoins at right. Steeply pitched roof has overlapping stone
gable coping at right with roll-moulded finial.
Right return gable has relieving arch, at ground level, with a
C20 6-pane window in chamfered surround. Top-hung lights with
6-pane on first floor and 9-pane in gable peak have thin
timber lintels. Rear elevation shows few openings, with some
chamfered.
INTERIOR: first build roof has large truncated principal
trusses; second build has collared trusses halved at ridge,
with ridge and side purlins.

Listing NGR: NZ1794326400

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26580388

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Recommended Books

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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  For the Record
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)