Highlaws Farmhouse

HIGHLAWS FARMHOUSE

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1042884
Date first listed:
30-Jan-1986
Statutory Address:
HIGHLAWS FARMHOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1042884
Date first listed:
30-Jan-1986
Statutory Address 1:
HIGHLAWS FARMHOUSE

Location

Statutory Address:
HIGHLAWS FARMHOUSE

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

District:
Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Wallington Demesne
National Grid Reference:
NZ 07553 83956

Details

WALLINGTON DEMESNE NZ 08 SE NZ 075840 14/156 Highlaws Farmhouse II House, dated 1728 with initials W.D.A. (William and Dorothy Aynsley) on lintel of north door, now concealed; late C19 rear wing. Front elevation squared stone, left return rendered, right return rubble; rear wing squared stone with tooled-and-margined dressings: slate roof. 2 storeys, 5 bays, symmetrical. Central 6-panel door in wave-moulded surround; late C19 sash windows in earlier moulded stone surrounds. Coped gables with moulded kneelers; stepped and corniced ashlar stacks. Rear wing has twin gables; raised quoins and window surrounds.

J. Hodgson History of Northumberland Part II Vol. 1., 314.

Listing NGR: NZ0755383956

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
238405
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Crawford Hodgson, J, A History of Northumberland in Hexhamshire Part II Hexham Whitley Chapel Allendale and St John Lee and the Parish of Chollerton the Chapelry of Kirkheaton the Parish of Throcrington, Vol. 1, (1897), 314

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