Merry Shiels Farmhouse and Attached Farm Buildings
MERRY SHIELS FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED FARM BUILDINGS, B6342
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1044909
- Date first listed:
- 05-Sept-1985
- Statutory Address:
- MERRY SHIELS FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED FARM BUILDINGS, B6342
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1044909
- Date first listed:
- 05-Sept-1985
- Statutory Address 1:
- MERRY SHIELS FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED FARM BUILDINGS, B6342
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
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- Legacy System number:
- 239600
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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