White Lea House and Adjacent Farmbuilding
WHITE LEA HOUSE AND ADJACENT FARMBUILDING
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1042922
- Date first listed:
- 23-Aug-1985
- List Entry Name:
- White Lea House and Adjacent Farmbuilding
- Statutory Address:
- WHITE LEA HOUSE AND ADJACENT FARMBUILDING
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1042922
- Date first listed:
- 23-Aug-1985
- List Entry Name:
- White Lea House and Adjacent Farmbuilding
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHITE LEA HOUSE AND ADJACENT FARMBUILDING
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- WHITE LEA HOUSE AND ADJACENT FARMBUILDING
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Knaresdale with Kirkhaugh
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 72521 49722
Details
NY 74 NW KNARESDALE WITH KIRKHAUGH AYLE
19/138 White Lea house and adjacent farmbuilding
II
Bastle house, late C16 or early C17 altered later c17; farm building probably late C18. House massive rubble with roughly-shaped quoins, stone dressings. Farm building rubble with dressings, stone slate roofs. House 2 storeys, irregular fenestration. Central boarded door with alternating jambs; to left C20 window, to right 2-light window with ovolo-section mullion and old iron bars, lintel inscribed 'N : L : K : L : APR : 1682' between stylised foliage. 1st floor has a small slit and 2 small windows in chamfered surrounds, the left,set within the blocking of an earlier 1st floor door, retains its old iron bar. Old stone gable stacks, that to left heightened when the farm building was built. Farm building to left has 2 doorways with alternating jambs. 2 ground-floor boarded doors to farm building, that to right in old chamfered surround, loading door above and to right. Interior of farm building: blocked byre door of original bastle visible, with chamfered surround. Original small 1st floor loop in rear wall of bastle now opens into later outshut. A good example of a bastle house modified in the late C17 with a later farm building providing byre and barn facilites.
Listing NGR: NY7252149722
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 240257
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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