Talk:Old Hall, Hurworth-on-Tees

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The Old Hall is situated behind Hurworth Green, which is at the centre the village of Hurworth-on-Tees in County Durham, England. It is number 50 on the green and is amongst several great pieces of architecture, like itself. The name of the building is, on some old maps of the village, incorrectly placed.

==Description== The house is in a Georgian style and has three storeys. It has been built from a red coloured brick. The windows are of the typical Georgian style which are divided up by thin bars, but have been made half as tall at the third storey. There are five large chimneys, one significantly taller than the others. An extension was made on the east side which has maintained the style of the house. The front door is under an arch which continues all the way to the back of the house and into the back garden. A little way south from the back garden lies the River Tees. An iron fence separates its grounds from the green. A drive runs from behind its gates to the main road, cutting through the green. This, architecturally, is a grand building, but it appears gloomy from the green because the sun is behind it.

==History== The hall was built at the beginning of the eighteenth century, possibly around 1715. It was once owned by Rev. William Garmondsway Wrightson, who once owned the Manor and whose father, Thomas Wrightson, had built the New Hall (before 1850). Also, the hall was formerly the home of the Collyer family. Watercolour paintings have been done of several architectural landmarks in Hurworth-on-Tees, including the Old Hall; making up the village poster (the artist being Alfred M. Alderson). A framed copy of the village poster is on show in the Hurworth Grange Community Centre.

— TransporterMan (TALK) 18:02, 11 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

On further reflection, and because this house is extant, I'm going to AGF and have added back in a few details from the prior version which are self-verifying, but which are not mentioned in the National Heritage listing. By that, I mean that they are details which could be verified by merely looking at the house and its grounds. (That is very much like the fact that geographical coordinates and photographs need no reliable source, unless they are challenged, because you can go to those coordinates or to the pictured object either in person or via satellite image and see that what's supposed to be there is, in fact, there. See this discussion for details.) The original article reads very much as if it were written by someone from the Hurworth area or who at the very least is personally familiar with the house and I have no particularly good reason to doubt their assertion of the facts that I've added back in to the extent that I've done so. (And that's aided by the fact that most of those facts can also be verified from the photograph and the satellite images of this house.) The remainder of the original article, however, I challenge as being of uncertain verifiability, as original research, or as unencyclopedic. Regards, TransporterMan (TALK) 17:33, 12 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]