Wilton Grange, Hartlepool
Description: Wilton Grange
Grade: II
Date Listed: 13 August 1976
English Heritage Building ID: 432554
OS Grid Reference: NZ4946032560
OS Grid Coordinates: 449460, 532560
Latitude/Longitude: 54.6857, -1.2343
Location: Grange Road, Hartlepool TS26 8LX
Locality: Hartlepool
Local Authority: Hartlepool
County: Durham
Country: England
Postcode: TS26 8LX
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Listing Text
HARTLEPOOL GRANGE ROAD
NZ 43 SE
(south side)
3/73 Wilton Grange
(formerly listed
13.8.76 in Wooler Road)
- II
Large house, 1902-03, by Henry Barnes. Brick with stone dressings to ground
floor, half-timbered first floor with plain clay tile roof and 5 brick
stacks. 2 storeys. Asymmetrical composition of vernacular, Queen Anne and
Jacobean features; "L"-plan. Cross and mullioned-and-transomed windows with
leaded lights to ground floor, mullioned to first floor, including single
and 2-storey canted bays, and bracketed oriels. Moulded string course
between floors; pargetting to gables on west side and oriels on south side.
Doorway on north side, with Gibbs surround and segmental hood on Tuscan
columns. Heavily-moulded, dentilled and modillioned cornices to verges and
eaves. Interior : quasi Jacobean plastered barrel-vaulted staircase hall
with wall-posts, carved in oriental manner; supporting plates and ties. On
the landing are oriel windows with baroque plaster work and a mural
painting. Large fireplaces to reception rooms have carved inglenook benches
with panels of leather and beaten metal.
Listing NGR: NZ4946032560
Source: English Heritage
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