High Buston House
HIGH BUSTON HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1041843
- Date first listed:
- 31-Dec-1969
- List Entry Name:
- High Buston House
- Statutory Address:
- HIGH BUSTON HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1041843
- Date first listed:
- 31-Dec-1969
- List Entry Name:
- High Buston House
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGH BUSTON HOUSE
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 HOUSE
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 23217 08776
Details
NU 20 NW ALNMOUTH HIGH BUSTON
10/10 High Buston House 31.12.69 GV II
House, c.1780 but probably incorporating older fabric. Squared stone; Welsh slate roof. Rectangular villa with two rear wings joined by single-storey range to enclose small courtyard. South front 2 storeys, 5 bays, symmetrical. Chamfered plinth, sill bands. Central old half-glazed door in C19 surround with engaged columns, cornice and pediment. 12-pane sash windows. Tall hipped roof with 2 axial corniced stacks on ridge. Similar right return 2 + 2 bays, the lower right part a rear wing with hip-ended roof and end stack. Left return 2 + 2 bays. Main block similar except that windows in right bay are blind; lower wing to left has central blocked door with inserted windows, 16-pane sashes in right bay and 12-pane sash under blind window to left; hip-ended roof with stepped-and-corniced ridge stack. Rear elevation: Single-storey 3-bay north range has central passageway and slightly-projecting end bays with 16-pane sashes; hipped roof. To right an old pump in stone housing with smoothed roof and ceramic trough. Above and behind, in north wall of main block, is an arched stair window holding 12-pane sash with intersecting head.
Interior: Doors of 6 fielded panels. Panelled shutters. Sitting room has fireplace of c.1900 with older Delft tiles, probably Dutch; acanthus cornice. Dining room has foliage cornice. Panelled round arch from hall to stair, with inserted mid-C19 glazed screen. Open-well stair with stick balusters, moulded handrail and shaped tread ends. Irregular spacing and thicknesses of ground floor hall walls suggest older fabric.
Listing NGR: NU2321708776
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 236900
- 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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