Great Chesters Farmhouse
GREAT CHESTERS FARMHOUSE, B 6318
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1045263
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Great Chesters Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- GREAT CHESTERS FARMHOUSE, B 6318
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1045263
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Great Chesters Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- GREAT CHESTERS FARMHOUSE, B 6318
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:
- GREAT CHESTERS FARMHOUSE, B 6318
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Greenhead
- National Park:
- Northumberland
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 70467 66860
Details
GREENHEAD B 6318 NY 76 NW (North side, off) Great Chesters 12/75 Great Chesters Farmhouse II
Farmhouse. Early-mid C18 with mid C19 additions. Coursed rubble, rendered on front; purple slate roof and stone chimneys. Original 3-storey, 2-bay main block with C19 2-storey, one-bay addition on right. C19 gabled stone porch with boarded door and 4-pane overlight at junction between builds. Main block: 4-pane sashes in C19 openings on ground floor; 2 replaced sashes in raised surrounds on first floor; central horizontal window in raised surround immediately below eaves. Roof has coped gables and shaped kneelers. End stacks with top ledges and water tables. Slightly lower addition has 4-pane sashes on each floor. Roof, with lower eaves and ridge, has coped right gable. Right end stack with top band. C19 2-storey outshut and gabled porch on rear of main block. Interior: roof of main block has 2 pairs of upper crucks with collars; crucks carry 2 rows of adzed purlins and are crossed at ridge piece. Single- storey farmbuilding on left return is not of special interest.
Listing NGR: NY7046766860
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 240723
- 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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