Highgreen Manor
HIGHGREEN MANOR
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1044840
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Highgreen Manor
- Statutory Address:
- HIGHGREEN MANOR
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1044840
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Highgreen Manor
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGHGREEN MANOR
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:
- HIGHGREEN MANOR
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Tarset
- National Park:
- Northumberland
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 80853 91052
Details
TARSET HIGH GREEN NY 89 SW 24/88 Highgreen Manor
GV II
Country house with 2 cottages attached to rear. c.1885 extended 1894 for Mr. Morrison Bell. Rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings, Welsh slate roof.
In 2 sections.
To left the older section: 2 storeys, 5 bays. 3-bay centre has central gabled porch and paired sash windows with stepped and castellated gables over each bay. End bays are round towers; they have corbel tables and ashlar parapets with slit windows and blank recesses in raised moulded surrounds; moulded cornices and tall conical roofs with swept eaves and lead finials. Elsewhere hipped roofs with tall corniced stacks.
Addition to right L-plan. Recessed linking section to left has part-glazed door with mullioned overlight; above 5 small 6-pane casements in raised moulded surrounds. Projecting right bay has 4-light window on ground floor; on 1st floor a canted oriel window on moulded corbel with shield incribed C 1894 L Flanking the oriel 2 carved panels in foliage frames, to right the W B M. Morrison Bell crest, to left a bell. Above the oriel a gable flanked by chimneys with a pronounced batter.
Interior: Stone fireplace with moulded mantelshelf and large segmental overpanel bearing Morrison Bell crest, all set in aedicule with pilasters and modillion cornice.
Listing NGR: NY8085391052
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 239749
- 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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