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Swiss Cottage

A Grade II Listed Building in Benfieldside, County Durham

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Coordinates

Latitude: 54.8707 / 54°52'14"N

Longitude: -1.8575 / 1°51'27"W

OS Eastings: 409242

OS Northings: 552891

OS Grid: NZ092528

Mapcode National: GBR HDG3.NS

Mapcode Global: WHC40.FTPX

Plus Code: 9C6WV4CR+7X

Entry Name: Swiss Cottage

Listing Date: 4 August 1975

Last Amended: 21 January 1987

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1240617

English Heritage Legacy ID: 439093

ID on this website: 101240617

Location: Shotley Bridge, County Durham, DH8

County: County Durham

Electoral Ward/Division: Benfieldside

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Consett

Traditional County: Durham

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): County Durham

Church of England Parish: Benfieldside

Church of England Diocese: Durham

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Description


NZ 05 SE CONSETT SNOW'S GREEN ROAD
(East side)
Shotley Bridge
5/85 (inset) Nos. 16 and 18
4/8/75 (Swiss Cottage)
(Formerly listed as
Nos 16 and 18)
GV II
House, late subdivided and now 2 houses and flat with former shop. Circa 1840.
Sandstone rubble; Lakeland slate roof with ashlar and yellow brick chimneys.
Chalet style. H-plan, the front and rear blocks as 2 chalets linked by narrow
bay. 2 storeys, 3 windows to street. Shop at right has narrow pilasters and
bracketed cornice framing glazed door and overlight, and shop window with 2 rows
of 4 large panes; 48-pane sashes at left and on first floor in outer bays, and
small concave-sided diamond-shaped windows, with small panes, in centre of each
floor. First floor jettied on shaped wood brackets with wood floor-level band.
Roof has deeply-projecting eaves on shaped and pierced wood brackets with curved
pendants. Returns have similar windows, some renewed, and round-headed windows
in linking set-back section, on right return; decorative barge-boards on gables.
Rear upper-floor addition on higher ground level not of special interest.


Listing NGR: NZ0924252891

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