Low Stead Farmhouse and Attached Farm Buildings
LOW STEAD FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED FARM BUILDINGS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1370478
- Date first listed:
- 07-Mar-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Low Stead Farmhouse and Attached Farm Buildings
- Statutory Address:
- LOW STEAD FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED FARM BUILDINGS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1370478
- Date first listed:
- 07-Mar-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Low Stead Farmhouse and Attached Farm Buildings
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOW STEAD FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED FARM BUILDINGS
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:
- LOW STEAD FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED FARM BUILDINGS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wark
- National Park:
- Northumberland
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 81547 78390
Details
NY 87 NW WARK LOW STEAD
10/84 Low Stead farmhouse and attached farm buildings
GV II
Farmhouse and attached byres. Farmhouse and byre to left are bastle houses, late C16 or early C17. Windows and doors altered C18 and again mid C19. Byre to right early C19. Massive random rubble with dressed stone surrounds. Welsh slate roofs. Walls of bastles 4 ft thick. House 3 irregular bays. Plank door in middle bay. Windows are diamond-paned iron casements. Upper windows smaller. Right window is the partly-blocked original upper door to bastle. House walls raised C18 or C19 by c 2 ft. Left byre, probably early extension to original bastle, has plank door and ½-slatted window on each floor; upper door reached by outside stone stair. Byre to right has central door with alternating jambs; and two ½-slatted windows on 1st floor. Later C18 single-storey extensions to rear. Gabled roofs with flat copings and kneelers to bastles. 2 stone gable stacks. Interior has old beams on ground floor.
Listing NGR: NY8154778390
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 239503
- 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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