The Cottage and Adjoining Farm Buildings
THE COTTAGE AND ADJOINING FARM BUILDINGS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1232217
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1987
- Statutory Address:
- THE COTTAGE AND ADJOINING FARM BUILDINGS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1232217
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1987
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE COTTAGE AND ADJOINING FARM BUILDINGS
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE COTTAGE AND ADJOINING FARM BUILDINGS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Stanhope
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 91014 37603
Details
STANHOPE SWINHOPEBURN NY 93 NW NY 910376 19/278 The Cottage and adjoining farm buildings GV II House, with former house adjoining to left and further left barn with byre; also right extension. Circa 1600 old defensible house, main house C17 remodelled in early C19, remainder early C19. Sandstone and limestone rubble with ashlar dressings; stone-flagged roofs. Linear plan. Main house 2 storeys, 2 bays and added wider right bay. Ledged boarded and battened door in chamfered surround in second bay. Stone inscribed W B M S Anno Domini 1620 set above. Ledged boarded door in plain surround in right bay. Late C19 sashes with flat stone lintels and projecting stone sills. Early house to left 3 low storeys, one wide bay, with massive quoins. 2-panel door in wide-chamfered surround with large irregular jambs. Inserted central door under rough lintel and boarded opening at left. Similar lintel to boarded first-floor door; fragments of external steps remain. Central boarded openings on upper floors. 2-storey, 3-bay barn at left has central blocked round arch with voussoirs, of a height more suitable for ponies than horses, flanked by Dutch doors under stone lintels; similar lintels and projecting stone sills to outer partly-glazed windows and to 2 boarded pitching holes above. Roof has 3 square ridge chimneys, that at right on massive external stack. Rear has higher ground level, with one-storey outshut to 3-bay house, part under catslide roof; bank entry to first floor of 3-storey house.
Interior: oldest part has one-metre-thick left wall, with low blocked square- headed door; fire in floor above; rear door opposite entrance blocked by raised ground level. Later house has wide-chamfered beams and moulded joists; cast- iron range in second floor.
Listing NGR: NY9101437603
Legacy
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- Legacy System number:
- 407554
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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