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Latitude: 54.7322 / 54°43'55"N
Longitude: -1.613 / 1°36'46"W
OS Eastings: 425021
OS Northings: 537539
OS Grid: NZ250375
Mapcode National: GBR KF5Q.LF
Mapcode Global: WHC4X.6B51
Plus Code: 9C6WP9JP+VR
Entry Name: Holywell House
Listing Date: 5 August 1981
Last Amended: 7 December 1987
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1323195
English Heritage Legacy ID: 109890
ID on this website: 101323195
Location: County Durham, DH7
County: County Durham
Civil Parish: Brancepeth
Traditional County: Durham
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): County Durham
Church of England Parish: Brancepeth
Church of England Diocese: Durham
Tagged with: House
BRANCEPETH HOLYWELL NZ 23 NE (North side) 6/9 Holywell House 5/8/81 (formerly listed as Former Holywell Farmhouse, including abutting cottages) II Farmhouse, now private house. Mid-late C18 of several builds possibly incorporating C17 core; C19 and C20 alterations. Narrow hand-made brick in irregular English garden wall bond; coursed rubble rear wing. Renewed pantiled roof on main section and Welsh slate roof on cottage. Brick chimney stacks. Main block 3 + 2 + 3 bays with added 2-bay cottage at right. Band between storeys and fragment of straight joint with stone quoins to right of centre. Openings under rubbed-brick flat arches. Replaced doors in third and fifth bays. Mainly replaced 12-pane sashes but paired sashes, in enlarged openings, between the 2 doorways. Cottage at right originally one storey, heightened in C19, has one 12-pane sash with stone lintel and sill; other openings altered. Continuous steeply-pitched roof with swept eaves. End and 2 ridge stacks. Tumbled-in brickwork on left gable. Gabled, 2-storey rubble wing, on centre rear of main block, has scattered sashes. Added similar brick wing at right. One-storey range of ancillary buildings, at right-angles on left bay of cottage, and altered farmbuildings, on right return of cottage, are not of special interest.
Listing NGR: NZ2502137539
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