Low Horton Farmhouse

LOW HORTON FARMHOUSE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1041377
Date first listed:
15-Jul-1987
List Entry Name:
Low Horton Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
LOW HORTON FARMHOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1041377
Date first listed:
15-Jul-1987
List Entry Name:
Low Horton Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
LOW HORTON 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.

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
LOW HORTON FARMHOUSE

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

District:
Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Blyth
National Grid Reference:
NZ 28192 79657

Details

HORTON, Cramlington NZ 27 NE NZ 283797 4/18 Low Horton Farmhouse II House, mid C18,altered and extended to rear late C18 or early C19. Squared stone except for rear block, brick in English Garden Wall Bond 1 and 3. Welsh slate roof with old brick stacks. South elevation 2 storeys, 3 bays. Central renewed door with overlight. 4-pane sash windows except for C19 canted bay on left, with hipped roof. Raised reverse-stepped gable coping; banded end stacks. To right, single-storey 1-bay kitchen with C20 4-pane casement and stepped end stack. Left return, part-rendered, shows renewed 16-pane sashes under wedge lintels in rear block. Rear elevation shows similar fenestration including 20-pane sash stair window, and 8-pane Yorkshire sash in outshut to kitchen.

Interior: Fielded 6-panel doors, panelled shutters. Round arches with panelled jambs at foot of stair; dog-leg open-string stair with stick balusters, moulded handrail and moulded newel.

The house succeeded Horton Castle, latterly a Delaval possesion; the castle site is that of the detached farmbuilding group to the west, the ruins being removed in the early C19.

Listing NGR: NZ2819279657

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
235982
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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