Peth Foot

PETH FOOT

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1042139
Date first listed:
20-Oct-1969
List Entry Name:
Peth Foot
Statutory Address:
PETH FOOT
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1042139
Date first listed:
20-Oct-1969
List Entry Name:
Peth Foot
Statutory Address 1:
PETH FOOT

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:
PETH FOOT

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

District:
Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Thirston
National Grid Reference:
NU 18446 00190

Details

THIRSTON WEST THIRSTON NU 10 SE 1/69 Peth Foot 20.10.69 GV II House, dated 1617 but incorporating earlier fabric, remodelled and extended C19. Rubble (front rendered) with dressings; rear wing brick with stone dressings; slate roof. Front 2 storeys, 5 bays, irregular. Old door of diagonally-set oak boards in bay 2, under flat-pointed arch in square frame, and stepped hoodmould. Sunk panel in moulded surround above, with inscription: ANNO DOMINI 1617 PRO(VERBS 24) VER(SE 3) THR(OUGH) WISD OM (IS A) HOV SE BVILDED (AN) (D) WITH (UNDE)R DING STAN (I)T IS ESTABLISHED Relief lettering, the last 2 lines cut on the door lintel. Late C19 sash windows in cement surrounds. Rendered ridge and end stacks. Left return shows 1st floor opening, now glazed but perhaps originally a door, with chamfered surround and hoodmould. Early C19 wing to left. Rear elevation shows round-headed stair window with radial glazing and former 2-light mullioned window, above roof of later outshut. Interior: South end wall of 2.6 metres and an internal cross wall of similar thickness on north of entrance passage suggest the existence of a medieval tower. Blocked chamfered door on south of entrance passage. Mid C18 stair with panelled newel post, moulded grip handrail and column-on-vase balusters; similar stair-head balustrade.

Listing NGR: NU1844600190

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
238212
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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