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Chester Lodge

A Grade II Listed Building in Bournmoor, County Durham

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Coordinates

Latitude: 54.8647 / 54°51'53"N

Longitude: -1.5575 / 1°33'27"W

OS Eastings: 428496

OS Northings: 552306

OS Grid: NZ284523

Mapcode National: GBR KDK5.LX

Mapcode Global: WHC45.1ZLH

Plus Code: 9C6WVC7R+VX

Entry Name: Chester Lodge

Listing Date: 23 February 1987

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1323103

English Heritage Legacy ID: 109349

ID on this website: 101323103

Location: County Durham, DH3

County: County Durham

Civil Parish: Bournmoor

Traditional County: Durham

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): County Durham

Church of England Parish: Burnmoor

Church of England Diocese: Durham

Tagged with: Gatehouse

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Description


BOURNMOOR CHESTER ROAD
NZ 25 SE 285523
(North side, off)
4/3 Chester Lodge
GV II

Gate lodge. 1815 by Ignatius Bonomi for John Lambton, later 1st Earl of
Durham; mid C19 rear wing. Ashlar sandstone; dressed stone rear wing.
Graduated green slate roofs and stone chimney stacks. Originally T-plan with
C19 wing added at right-angles on right rear.

Single-storey, wide 2-bay front. Entrance via small square-plan porch set
back on right return. Porch has 2-leaf door under segmental head. Main block
has tall plinth coped by sill string. Wide canted left bay with 3 windows;
right bay with 2 windows. All replaced sashes in segmental-headed openings
with stepped square-cut reveals. Moulded eaves band. Projecting bay on left
with C20 French windows. Low-pitched roof hipped over canted bay and right
return. 2 low ridge stacks with ornamental C19 chimney-pots. Long single-
storey C19 wing on rear has hipped roof.

Included for group value. C20 rear addition not of special interest.


Listing NGR: NZ2849652306

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