Scripton Farmhouse With Adjoining Dairy/cheeseroom
SCRIPTON FARMHOUSE WITH ADJOINING DAIRY/CHEESEROOM, A 690
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1120760
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Scripton Farmhouse With Adjoining Dairy/cheeseroom
- Statutory Address:
- SCRIPTON FARMHOUSE WITH ADJOINING DAIRY/CHEESEROOM, A 690
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1120760
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Scripton Farmhouse With Adjoining Dairy/cheeseroom
- Statutory Address 1:
- SCRIPTON FARMHOUSE WITH ADJOINING DAIRY/CHEESEROOM, A 690
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:
- SCRIPTON FARMHOUSE WITH ADJOINING DAIRY/CHEESEROOM, A 690
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Brancepeth
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 23267 38592
Details
BRANCEPETH A 690 NZ 23 NW (South side) Scripton 5/2 Scripton Farmhouse with adjoining dairy/cheese-room II Farmhouse, now 2 dwellings, with former dairy/cheese-room. Mid C19 for Brancepeth Estate. Squared sandstone in narrow courses with ashlar dressings. Graduated green slate roofs and ashlar chimney stacks. Tudor style. Main block with dairy adjoining on left. 2-storey, 3-bay front, the centre bay projecting and cross gabled, the end bays each with 2 openings. Openings in chamfered surrounds. Panelled door at right and narrow 4-pane sashes at left. 12-pane sashes elsewhere. Small round-arched louvred opening under dripmould in gable of centre bay. Small gable over first-floor window of left bay. Steeply-pitched roof has overhanging eaves with exposed rafter ends and verges with pierced bargeboards. Transverse left end chimney and central ridge chimneys with tall octagonal stacks. 2-storey cross-gabled wing on right rear has similar details. One-storey, octagonal-plan dairy has 12-pane sashes and a steeply-pitched pyramidal roof with overhanging bracketed eaves. Central louvred octagonal lantern with pyramidal roof and spike finial. C20 additions on left rear of farmhouse are not of interest.
Listing NGR: NZ2326738592
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 109884
- 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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