Viewly Grange Farmhouse and Attached Farmbuilding

VIEWLY GRANGE FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED FARMBUILDING, PIT LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1120728
Date first listed:
28-Jun-1983
List Entry Name:
Viewly Grange Farmhouse and Attached Farmbuilding
Statutory Address:
VIEWLY GRANGE FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED FARMBUILDING, PIT LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1120728
Date first listed:
28-Jun-1983
List Entry Name:
Viewly Grange Farmhouse and Attached Farmbuilding
Statutory Address 1:
VIEWLY GRANGE FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED FARMBUILDING, PIT LANE

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
VIEWLY GRANGE FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED FARMBUILDING, PIT LANE

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

District:
County Durham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Framwellgate Moor
National Grid Reference:
NZ 27141 47104

Details

FRAMWELLGATE MOOR PIT LANE NZ 24 NE (North side, off) 2/24 Viewly Grange 28/6/83 farmhouse and attached farmbuilding GV II

Farmhouse and attached farmbuilding. Early C19. Coursed squared sandstone with quoins and ashlar dressings; roofs of pantiles, concrete tiles and corrugated iron; brick chimneys. U-plan with symmetrical front. 2-storey, 3-bay main range with lower 2-storey, one-bay wings, the ground level dropping sharply from right to left, making farm building at right a lower structure than the domestic wing at left. Long rear wings of one storey to left wing and 2 storeys to right bay of farmhouse. Main block has central 4-beaded- panel door in moulded stone surround; 16-pane sashes above and in outer bays have wedge stone lintels and projecting stone sills. Left wing has similar lintel over C20 door in ground floor; horizontal sliding sash at eaves. Quoins to left wing, to upper left corner of house and to full height of right bay of house. Right extension has small horizontal sliding sash under flat stone lintel at left. Low-pitched hipped roof on 2-storey part with banded chimneys on return eaves; similar chimney at end of left wing. Left return shows renewed half-glazed door. flanked by windows with glazing bars; segmental- headed carriage arch with voussoirs and alternate-block jambs. Pantiled roofs on both rear wings, with ridge ventilators on 2-storey range; concrete tiles on front buildings except for iron on right farm building.

Listing NGR: NZ2714147104

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
110014
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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