The World Bird Research Station
THE WORLD BIRD RESEARCH STATION, FRONT STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1041985
- Date first listed:
- 31-Dec-1969
- List Entry Name:
- The World Bird Research Station
- Statutory Address:
- THE WORLD BIRD RESEARCH STATION, FRONT STREET
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- 2003-06-24
- Reference:
- IOE01/10767/12
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1041985
- Date first listed:
- 31-Dec-1969
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 25-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The World Bird Research Station
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE WORLD BIRD RESEARCH STATION, FRONT STREET
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:
- THE WORLD BIRD RESEARCH STATION, FRONT STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Glanton
- National Grid Reference:
- NU 07068 14510
Details
GLANTON FRONT STREET NU 0714 (North side) Glanton Village 21/199 The World Bird Research Station 31.12.69 (previously listed as No. 14) GV II*
House, 1796 for Richard Hatkin, with earler C18 rear wing; west extension probably mid-C19. Front tooled-and-margined ashlar; returns and rear squared stone of near-ashlar quality. West extension tooled stone with tooled-and- margined dressings; rear wing rubble with large squared quoins and dressings. Lakeland slate roof, except for Welsh slates on rear wing and west extension.
Main house 2 storeys, 3 bays, symmetrical. Plinth, sill bands. Central 6-panel door under moulded hood on corbels; 12-pane sash windows. Eaves cornice. Coped gables with moulded kneelers; stepped-and-corniced end stacks. Set back to left, single-storey 1-bay extension with 1910 3-light mullioned window and stepped-and-corniced end stack.
Right return shows 12-pane sash windows and 6-pane attic sash; set back to right a single-storey 2-bay rear wing with renewed door and 12-pane Yorkshire sashes; attached pent closet on far right. Rear arched stair window: 12-pane sash with intersecting glazing bars in head.
Interior: Fielded-panel doors, folding panelled shutters. Good fireplaces with contemporary ironwork. Arch to stair hall; open-well stair with 2 stick balusters per tread, ramped moulded handrail, moulded newels and carved tread ends. Rear wing has set pot and adjacent tiled bath.
Historical notes: Formerly known as The Mansion, or Hatkin House; according to local legend the elderly owner built the house so that the prospect of inheriting it would entice a young woman to marry him. The first Bird Research Station in Britain was founded here in 1930; the house contains much apparatus and equipment used in early ornithological research, and is intended to open as a museum in 1987. Graded for historical interest.
Listing NGR: NU0706814510
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 236542
- 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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