British Listed Buildings

Listing Text

HARTLEPOOL CHURCH WALK
NZ 5233
(south side)
Headland.
8/58 Nos. 2 and 3
(Duke of
31.3.49 Cleveland's s
House) and
east extensions.

- II*

House, now Conservative Club; late C17 with early C19 extensions and late
C20 porch. Dressed limestone (upper 3 courses renewed); brick extensions,
rendered, and stuccoed; Welsh slate roofs have stone gable copings. 2
storeys; 4 bays to No. 2. Renewed sashes with glazing bars, stone lintels
and sills. Chamfered quoins to windows and at angles. 2 end stacks. Left
extension is set back, with lean-to porch in angle. Easternmost extension
(No. 3) has side fronting Church Walk, having external stack with offsets
and mid C20 casement window in late C19 opening cut through right-hand part
of stack. Doorway cut through middle of stack. East garden front of
extension is of ½-octagonal plan with 3 windows to each floor; and hipped
shallow-pitched roof. South garden front has 2 windows to each floor.
Ground-floor windows of extension are mid C20 fixed lights, those to first
floor are late C19 sashes, all in original openings. Right-hand (west)
ground-floor room of No. 2, has full-height bolection-moulded and fielded
timber panelling of c.1700, incorporating dado and cornice, together with
6-panelled doors, window seats, folding shutters and fixed display cupboard
having ½-glazed door with semi-circular head. Panelled overmantel above
late C19 iron-framed grate having hood and glazed tile surround. Ballroom
to first floor of No. 3 has moulded ceiling cornice and architraves to
doorways and niches. Late C19 and late C20 extensions adjoining south sides
are not of interest.


Listing NGR: NZ5282333636

Source: English Heritage

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