SEATON HOLME


Description:  The earliest phase in the development of Seaton Holme for which there is evidence above ground is an aisled hall with adjoining wing to the east, both of stone rubble. All the indications are that this was part of a mid 13th century building phase, this date is suggested by documentary sources and confirmed by dendrochronology. The east wing was at least partly rebuilt in the late 13th-early 14th century. The wing housed services on the ground floor and provided a great chamber on the first. The hall range was rebuilt with a considerably taller open hall in the second half of the 15th century. The two wings were later re-roofed, and the west wing raised in height by almost one metre. Dendrochronological analysis has dated the re-roofing of the west wing to the early 16th century. The trusses of the east wing have timbers dating to both the late 15th and late 16th centuries, suggesting that the wing may have been re-roofed at the same time that the hall range was rebuilt, but was then at least partially rebuilt a century later. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries the building was extensively renovated, in the course of which the interior was remodelled and the west wing virtually rebuilt. Alterations in 1989 included the demolition of a two storey stone built structure which stood between the north wall of the hall and the west wall of the east wing, and a pair of stone built wings which projected from the east wall of the east wing. To the north of Seaton Holme is a two storey building of stone construction, formerly an outbuilding of the rectory. The date and original function of the building is not know, there are a number of medieval windows and possible doorways on the first floor of the building. In the late 19th-early 20th century the outbuilding was converted in to a farm house and barn. In November 1921 the Rectory and its garden were sold to the Easington Union for use as a children's home.

Country:  ENGLAND

County:  DURHAM

District:  EASINGTON

Parish:  EASINGTON VILLAGE

Grid Reference:   NZ41374352

Map Reference:  [EPSG:27700] 441370, 543520

Period:  MODERN, POST MEDIEVAL, 1233 - 1266, 1450 - 1499, 1500 - 1532, 1767 - 1832, 1867 - 1932, 1989, MEDIEVAL, 1066 - 1540, 1267 - 1299, 1567 - 1599, 1921

Subject:  AISLED HALL HOUSE, BARN, CHILDRENS HOME, DEMOLISHED BUILDING, EXTANT BUILDING, FARMHOUSE, HOUSE, OPEN HALL HOUSE, OUTBUILDING, SERVICE WING, VICARAGE

Identifiers: 
[ADS] Depositor Id: NZ 44 SW 1
[ADS] Import RCN: NMR_NATINV-27214

People Involved: 
[Publisher] Historic England