Burnlaw Farmhouse
BURNLAW FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1042992
- Date first listed:
- 23-Aug-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Burnlaw Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- BURNLAW FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1042992
- Date first listed:
- 23-Aug-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Burnlaw Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- BURNLAW FARMHOUSE
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:
- BURNLAW FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Allendale
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 79095 57494
Details
NY 75 NE ALLENDALE
8/2 Burnlaw Farmhouse
II
House, C16 or early C17 bastle remodelled and extended later C17, extended C18, altered C19. Main block rubble with large quoins, extensions rubble, stone dressings, partly rendered. Slate roofs, fish-scale on main block. Front elevation; main block 2 storeys and attics, 3 windows. Central door with dressed stone surround; 16-pane sash windows with slightly projecting sills, except for window above door which is altered 2-light mullioned window. Small attic window beneath eaves has chamfered stone surround. Remains of several blocked mullioned windows. One-bay left extension has 2-light windows with square-section mullions and doorway with wave-moulded jambs and head. Second extension to left has door with alternating jambs; altered windows, some with remains of chamfered surrounds. Ashlar end chimneys, the outer ones corniced, that at junction stepped. Rendered right return has central blocked round-headed door from original bastle house; various C20 windows. Rear wing, 3 storeys and attic. Ground floor doorway has flattened Tudor arch in square frame, lintel inscribed 'T.S. 1662'; and altered 2-light mullioned window. On 1st floor 2 2-light mullioned windows with Cl9 leaded lights and coloured glass margins; two small chamfered- surround windows above. Ramm, McDowall and Mercer, 'Shielings and Bastles' HMSO 1970, p.80.
Listing NGR: NY7909557494
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 240122
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ramm, H G, Shielings and Bastles, (1970), 80
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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