Farmbuildings and Yard Walls to North of Home Farm
FARMBUILDINGS AND YARD WALLS TO NORTH OF HOME FARM, CRESSWELL HOME FARM
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1042145
- Date first listed:
- 18-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Farmbuildings and Yard Walls to North of Home Farm
- Statutory Address:
- FARMBUILDINGS AND YARD WALLS TO NORTH OF HOME FARM, CRESSWELL HOME FARM
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1042145
- Date first listed:
- 18-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Farmbuildings and Yard Walls to North of Home Farm
- Statutory Address 1:
- FARMBUILDINGS AND YARD WALLS TO NORTH OF HOME FARM, CRESSWELL HOME FARM
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:
- FARMBUILDINGS AND YARD WALLS TO NORTH OF HOME FARM, CRESSWELL HOME FARM
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Cresswell
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 29554 91927
Details
CRESSWELL CRESSWELL HOME FARM NZ 29 SE 8/5 Farmbuildings and yard walls to north of Home Farmhouse GV II
Planned farmbuildings, c.1830. Squared tooled stone with ashlar dressings; slate roofs. Ranges around yard, open to south; yard divided into four, with central detached loose box. North range in 3 parts: central barn 2 storeys, 3 wide bays; central segmental arch flanked by slit vents; 3 windows above. Slightly-recessed lower 2-storey side sections,each with 4-bay arcades; 7 windows above. Barn interior shows flights of stone steps flanking central arch in north wall. West range 1 storey, 8 bays; stable door in bay 2 to former smithy, boarded doors, stepped and corniced brick ridge stack with ashlar dressings. East range 1 storey, 6 bays; boarded door and double doors. To rear pent shelter shed has 8 open bays with round columns and timber lintels, linked at north to stable (q.v.). Loose box has gabled front with double doors under segmental arch; yard walls with monolithic gate piers, gabled coping and stone feeding troughs on internal faces. Front wall recessed to right with pair of stone drinking troughs.
Rear elevation: central gable of projecting threshing barn with 2 tiers of 3 slit vents. Set back to right engine house with tower combining dovecote and chimney; 3 stages, raised quoins, broad chamfered setback above first stage and moulded strings above upper stages. External stone stair to 1st floor door; on third stage 3 pigeon openings above an alighting band on each face. Interior shows nesting boxes and internal stack.
All openings (except of the loose box) have raised and chamfered stone surrounds, the doorways with alternating-block jambs and the windows with extended sills and lintels; this includes the slit vents. Coped gables with kneelers, moulded eaves courses.
A high-quality group of buildings, the dovecote/chimney especially unusual. Partly derelict at the time of survey, some parts roofless.
Listing NGR: NZ2955491927
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 238150
- 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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