FIR TREE GRANGE - nr Howden-le-Wear - List Entry
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Description
"...Formerly known as Smelt House. House, now hostel. Circa 1846, with billiard room wing dated 1883. Small blocks of coursed squared sandstone with ashlar plinth, and tooled-and-margined dressings, and quoins. Roof of graduated stone flags with stone gable copings. Crested ridge tiles, many missings. L-plan. 2 storeys, 4 bays. Modified early C17 style. Tudor-arched door with sidelights under drip mould at right; windows of varying numbers of lights in double- chamfered raised surrounds with ears, feet and middle blocks; ground-floor drip moulds. Steeply-pitched roof has 2-light windows in 3 gabled dormers; moulded gable copings; kneelers have ball finials; dormer finials are reversed hearts; 3 very tall ridge chimneys have conjoined stacks with cornices and blocking courses. Saddle-back tower over right return rear entrance. Left return external stack has 1511 date, perhaps referring to earlier house...." -
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Further information
Link: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1229281
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