Laxey Cottage
LAXEY COTTAGE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1120757
- Date first listed:
- 10-May-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Laxey Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- LAXEY COTTAGE, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1120757
- Date first listed:
- 10-May-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Laxey Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- LAXEY COTTAGE, HIGH STREET
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:
- LAXEY COTTAGE, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Shincliffe
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 29105 40644
Details
SHINCLIFFE HIGH STREET NZ 2940 (South side) 14/100 Laxey Cottage 10/5/67 II House. Late C17-earlyCl8 house with possibly C16 rear wing; late C18-early C19 former byre/barn; c.1930 alterations. Painted roughcast rubble with large Welsh roof slates and rebuilt brick chimney stacks. T-plan: hearth-passage house at right with former byre/barn, now domestic wing, at left and earlier wing at right-angles on rear of original house. 2 storeys; 2-bay house and 3-bay wing at left. Late C18 6-panel door and patterned fanlight in open-pedimented doorcase leads into hearth passage at junction. House has wide 2-storey early C19 canted bay window with 12-pane sashes at left, 16-pane sashes with projecting stone sills at right and a steeply-pitched roof with swept eaves and transverse end stacks. Wing has scattered openings with c.1930 side-hung metal casements and a low-pitched roof with left end stack. 2-storey, 2-bay rear wing has c.1.0- to 1.25 metre thick walls, scattered 12-pane sashes, large stepped external chimney on rear gable end and a steeply-pitched roof with swept eaves. Interior altered c.1930. Main house roof has 2 pairs of heavy adzed upper crucks, crossed at ridge and carrying halved cambered collars. Rear wing has massive adzed closely-spaced ceiling beams on ground floor and 2 pairs of lateClB-early C19 thin curved upper crucks halved at ridge and with a planked partition set behind front pair. Circa 1930 one- and 2-storey flat-roofed additions flanking rear wing are not of special interest. (H.M. Roberts, "Cruck-framed roofs in the City of Durham", Transactions of the Architectural and Archaeological Society of Durham and Northumberland, New Series, Volume 5, 1980.
Listing NGR: NZ2910540644
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 109981
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Transactions of the Architectural and Archaeological Society of Durham and North in Transactions of the Architectural and Archaeological Society of Durham and North, (1980)
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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