Usworth Hall

HER Number

6781

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Usworth Hall

Place

Usworth

Map Sheet

NZ35NW

Class

Domestic

Site Type: Broad

House

Site Type: Specific

Country House

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Extant Building

Description

Shown as "Usworth Place" on Ordnance Survey 1st edition of 1856. House, late 18th century for Bernard Shaw. Sandstone ashlar with Welsh slate roof. U-shaped plan. 2 storeys, 5 windows. South elevation: central double 5-panelled door in open Tuscan porch with fluted frieze; bands, eaves cornice, open pediment over central 3 windows. Plain reveals to sash windows without glazing bars; round window in pediment. Hipped roof has 2 transverse yellow brick chimneys. Interior - staircase altered but dado survives, 2 arched openings made in wall between hall and principal room. Latterly in use as Washington Development Corporation HQ. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting

431360

Northing

558810

Grid Reference

NZ431360558810

Sources

<< HER 6781 >> Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 2/85; N. Pevsner (second edition revised by Elizabeth Williamson, 1983, The Buildings of England: County Durham