Bank Top

BANK TOP, 4-8

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1042386
Date first listed:
25-Jan-1985
List Entry Name:
Bank Top
Statutory Address:
BANK TOP, 4-8
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1042386
Date first listed:
25-Jan-1985
List Entry Name:
Bank Top
Statutory Address 1:
BANK TOP, 4-8

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:
BANK TOP, 4-8

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

District:
Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Chillingham
National Grid Reference:
NU 05652 26102

Details

NU 0426-0526 CHILLINGEAM CHILLINGHAM

16/41 Bank Top Nos 4-8 (consecutive)

GV 11

Estate houses. Dated 1838 in gables. By Edward Blore for the Earl of Tankerville. Roughly dressed stone with ashlar surrounds. Welsh slate roof. U-shaped plan. 2 storeys. 6 bays in all. Upper windows gabled dormers breaking eaves. They, and gables to projecting wings have overlapping coping stones and kneelers. Similar gables to porches projecting into courtyard from ends of wings. Windows chamfered and slightly recessed. Chamfered mullions in gable-end windows. Sash windows, most of them original. Single-storey addition to right, 3 bays with 2-bay outshut containing chamfered doorway and small window. Slender, square, tall chimney stack. Main block has big coupled, stone, corniced stacks; 3 on ridge and one projecting on each return. Small screen walls, with chamfered square piers and ridged coping, project from porches to form gateway to courtyard. Square gate piers with pyramidal caps.

Listing NGR: NU0565226102

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Legacy System number:
237507
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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