Wentworth Cottage Wentworth House
WENTWORTH COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1045369
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Wentworth Cottage Wentworth House
- Statutory Address:
- WENTWORTH COTTAGE
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- Date:
- 2002-09-01
- Reference:
- IOE01/08577/08
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1045369
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Wentworth Cottage Wentworth House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WENTWORTH COTTAGE
- Statutory Address 2:
- WENTWORTH HOUSE
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:
- WENTWORTH COTTAGE
- Statutory Address:
- WENTWORTH HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Stocksfield
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 05389 61487
Details
BROOMLEY AND STOCKSFIELD BYWELL SCHOOL NZ 06 SE 5/88 Wentworth House and Wentworth Cottage
GV II
Pair of houses, dated 1853. Squared stone with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roofs. Tudor Gothic style. 2 storeys, 3 bays. Chamfered plinth. Recessed centre between gabled end bays; taller left bay has 4-light bay window with moulded cornice and parapet, 3-light window above and small lozenge-shaped gable light above dated panel with Allendale arms in gable. Centre 4-light window and 2-light window in gabled half-dormer above; right bay has 3-light (below) and 2-light windows and slit in gable. All openings in recessed chamfered surrounds, mostly with hoodmoulds; glazing renewed except for latticed slit on right return of porch. Ridge stack with 4 short circular shafts. Left return shows projecting gabled porch (to Wentworth House) with vertical- panelled door under moulded 4-centred arch, outer order and gable corbelled out. Right return shows projecting stepped stack. Entrance to Wentworth Cottage at rear. Gables with serpentine cusped bargeboards; moulded finials with pendants.
Listing NGR: NZ0538961487
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 240473
- 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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