Description

KIMBLESWORTH AND PLAWSWORTH HOLMHILL LANE
NZ 24 NE
(East side, off)
7/39 Harbour House
(previously included
in the Urban District
of Chester-le-Street)
GV II

Farmhouse. Early-mid C18 rear range; late C18 front range. Coursed rubble
with ashlar dressings. Graduated green slates on front; Welsh slates on rear
range. Ashlar chimney stacks. T-plan: rear range at right-angles to front.

Front range: 2 storeys plus basement; 3 bays. Raised-and-chamfered quoins.
Plinth and sill bands. 6 stone steps, with cast-iron handrails and stick
balusters, to central doorway. 6-panel door and fanlight, with radial glazing,
in open-pedimented stone doorcase with engaged Roman Ionic columns on pedestals.
Windows in rusticated surrounds, iron-barred in basement; 16-pane sashes above.
Eaves cornice and parapet,pedimented over centre bay. Pediment tympanum, with
brick infill, has blind oculus in moulded stone surround. Parapet has low end
piers with scrolled finials. Steeply-pitched hipped roof. Lateral stacks with
top bands. Left return: small carved head in oval on mid-wall quoin at junction
between front block and added 2-storey, one-bay rear outshut. Early C19
fenestration: 2 wedge lintels inscribed DAIRY; one projecting sill inscribed
CHEESEROOM. Set-back 2-storey, 2-bay rear range has steeply-pitched catslide
roof with slightly-swept eaves and coped rear gable. Large 15-pane round-arched
stair window on right return of rear range.

Interior of front block: entrance passage and flanking ground-floor rooms with
early C19 plaster ceilings; panelled window shutters and 6-panel doors in wood
architraves.

Listing NGR: NZ2821248288

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26452774

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Recommended Books

• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
• 
  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas