Merry Shiels Farmhouse and Attached Farm Buildings
MERRY SHIELS FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED FARM BUILDINGS, B6342
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1044909
- Date first listed:
- 05-Sept-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Merry Shiels Farmhouse and Attached Farm Buildings
- Statutory Address:
- MERRY SHIELS FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED FARM BUILDINGS, B6342
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1044909
- Date first listed:
- 05-Sept-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Merry Shiels Farmhouse and Attached Farm Buildings
- Statutory Address 1:
- MERRY SHIELS FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED FARM BUILDINGS, B6342
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:
- MERRY SHIELS FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED FARM BUILDINGS, B6342
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Kirkwhelpington
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 00046 81192
Details
NZ 08 SW KIRKWHELPINGTON B6342
Merry Shiels farmhouse 8/65 and attached farmbuildings II Planned farmstead. Early C19. Dressed stone with Welsh slate roof.
3 symmetrical ranges round a courtyard.
North range has 2-storey, 3-bay farmhouse with attached single-storey, 1-bay byres. House has C20 door with overlight. 4-pane sash windows with moulded reveals. Gabled roof with overlapping coping and two end stacks. Byre on right has plank door. Byre on left now a garage. Flanking these are short walls, each with a plank door, linking north range to projecting single-storey ranges.
East range has 6 elliptical arches to shelter sheds, 3 now blocked. Right of these a former 2-bay cottage, now storage with door and window in alternating- block surround. Hipped roof with square corniced ridge stack to cottage.
West range is byre and stable. 3 plank doors and two ½-slatted windows. Blocked elliptical arch to former cart shed on left. Hipped roof.
Listing NGR: NZ0004681192
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 239600
- 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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