Number 10 Messuage Farmhouse and Attached Outbuilding

AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDING, LOWER BENEFIELD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1040217
Date first listed:
13-Aug-1987
List Entry Name:
Number 10 Messuage Farmhouse and Attached Outbuilding
Statutory Address:
AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDING, LOWER BENEFIELD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1040217
Date first listed:
13-Aug-1987
List Entry Name:
Number 10 Messuage Farmhouse and Attached Outbuilding
Statutory Address 1:
AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDING, LOWER BENEFIELD
Statutory Address 2:
MESSUAGE FARMHOUSE, 10, LOWER BENEFIELD

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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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDING, LOWER BENEFIELD
Statutory Address:
MESSUAGE FARMHOUSE, 10, LOWER BENEFIELD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
North Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Benefield
National Grid Reference:
SP 99032 88650

Details

SP9988
14/7
13/08/87


BENEFIELD
LOWER BENEFIELD
No.10 (Messuage Farmhouse) and
attached outbuilding


GV
II


Farmhouse. Mid C18 and C19. Squared coursed limestone with thatch and
Collyweston slate roofs. 3-unit plan. 2 storeys. 3-window range of C19 style
casements under wood lintels. Plank door to right of centre, also under wood
lintel. Ashlar gable parapets and kneelers and stone and ashlar stacks at ridge
and end. Outbuilding attached to right, remodelled C19 as butcher's shop, has
Collyweston slate roof. Single storey with plank door and attached window under
single wood lintel. Small C19 extension to rear. Interior: 2 open fireplaces
with bressumers. Spine beams and restored, reset, C17 panelling in hall.


Listing NGR: SP9903288650

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
232728
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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