High Buston Farmhouse
HIGH BUSTON FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1041842
- Date first listed:
- 01-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- High Buston Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- HIGH BUSTON FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1041842
- Date first listed:
- 01-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- High Buston Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGH BUSTON 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:
- HIGH BUSTON FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Alnmouth
- National Grid Reference:
- NU 23127 08695
Details
NU 20 NW ALNMOUTH HIGH BUSTON
10/8 High Buston Farmhouse
GV II
House. Late C17 or early C18; enlarged c.1800; rear porch later C19. Front squared stone, returns rendered, rear rubble, rear porch squared stone; cut dressings. Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys, 3 bays, symmetrical. Plinth, 1st floor and eaves bands. Central renewed door in square-headed opening under moulded stone hood on shaped corbels, all within segmental-arched recess. 4-pane sash windows with slightly projecting sills; beneath central 1st-floor window a stone with Percy crescent. Coped gables; stepped end stacks with chamfered caps. Each return shows similar sash to 1st floor. Rear elevation shows right-of-centre gabled porch with flush-panelled door on right return and 6-pane sash window; other windows various sashes. Traces of old blocked windows show original house was 3 storeys high.
Interior, 0.65 metre-thick spine wall is front wall of original house. Interior largely C19 except for 2-panel doors on H hinges, perhaps re-set, in attic. King-post roof trusses.
Attached farmbuilding range is not of special interest.
Listing NGR: NU2312708695
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 236898
- 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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