Matfen Piers Farmhouse

MATFEN PIERS FARMHOUSE, B6318

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1044879
Date first listed:
05-Sept-1985
List Entry Name:
Matfen Piers Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
MATFEN PIERS FARMHOUSE, B6318

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1044879
Date first listed:
05-Sept-1985
List Entry Name:
Matfen Piers Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
MATFEN PIERS FARMHOUSE, B6318

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

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
MATFEN PIERS FARMHOUSE, B6318

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

District:
Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Whittington
National Grid Reference:
NZ 03198 68600

Details

NZ 06 NW WHITTINGTON B6318 (North side) 18/93 Matfen Piers Farmhouse

GV II

Farmhouse. c1840. Dressed stone with Welsh slate roof. L-plan. 2 storeys. 2-bay centre with symmetrically-placed single-storey lean-to on each return. Tudor-arched door in gabled stone porch with kneelers in right lean-to. 2-light mullioned windows with 12-pane casements in raised and chamfered surrounds. Similar window in left lean-to has lost its small-paned casements. 1st floor band.

Eaves and lean-to eaves supported on rounded stone corbels. Gabled roof with partly-projecting stone corniced and conjoined end stacks.

Windows to rear are 16-pane Yorkshire sashes.

Similar end stack on rear wing.

Listing NGR: NZ0319868600

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
239628
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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© Crown copyright [and database rights] 2026. OS AC0000815036. All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100024900.© British Crown and SeaZone Solutions Limited 2026. All rights reserved. Licence number 102006.006.

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