High House West
HIGH HOUSE WEST
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1043017
- Date first listed:
- 24-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- High House West
- Statutory Address:
- HIGH HOUSE WEST
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1043017
- Date first listed:
- 24-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- High House West
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGH HOUSE WEST
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:
- HIGH HOUSE WEST
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Sandhoe
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 96919 66355
Details
SANDHOE SANDHOE VILLAGE NY 96 NE (North side)
5/315 High House West
GV II
House, formerly kitchen or brewhouse, originally detached, to Sandhoe High House (q.v.). C17, altered in C18. Coursed roughly-squared stone with cut quoins and dressings; graduated Lakeland slate roof. South elevation 2 storeys, 1 bay. Renewed doorway in raised stone surround on left; 12-pane sash window with C20 casement over, both in architraves. Roof hipped to left, ridge stack. Gabled right return (visible from rear of Sandhoe High House) shows ground and 1st floor windows, with C20 casements under round-arched heads with radial glazing bars, in raised stone surrounds with imposts and keystones.
Interior: C17 fireplace with segmental chamfered arch. C20 pent outshut at west end and attached block to north-east, altered in C20, are not of special interest.
Detached kitchens are often recorded in C16 and C17 documentary sources (e.g. in Newcastle) but very few examples survive.
Listing NGR: NY9691966355
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 240074
- 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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