Shepherd and Sheperdess Public House and Holly House
SHEPHERD AND SHEPERDESS PUBLIC HOUSE AND HOLLY HOUSE
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1120964
- Date first listed:
- 23-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Shepherd and Sheperdess Public House and Holly House
- Statutory Address:
- SHEPHERD AND SHEPERDESS PUBLIC HOUSE AND HOLLY HOUSE
Have you got a photo to share?
Join the Missing Pieces Project. We want you to share your photos and memories.
Location
Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.
Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.
What is the National Heritage List for England?
The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.
The list includes:
 |
Buildings |
 |
Scheduled monuments |
 |
Parks and gardens |
 |
Battlefields |
 |
Shipwrecks |
Images of England Project
- Date:
- 2000-05-12
- Reference:
- IOE01/00001/05
- Rights:
- © Mr Bob Cottrell. Source: Historic England Archive
Local Heritage Hub
Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.
Discover moreOfficial list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1120964
- Date first listed:
- 23-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Shepherd and Sheperdess Public House and Holly House
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHEPHERD AND SHEPERDESS PUBLIC HOUSE AND HOLLY 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:
- SHEPHERD AND SHEPERDESS PUBLIC HOUSE AND HOLLY HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Urpeth
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 22114 53837
Details
URPETH BEAMISH NZ 25 SW 3/56 Shepherd and Shepherdess Public House and Holly House II
Public house and private house. Mid C18 with late C19 additions. Dressed stone (Public House covered by painted roughcast); Welsh slate roof and ashlar chimney stacks.
Long 2-storey front; 4 plus 3 bays (Holly House to right). Public House has low plinth and raised quoins at left. Off-centre 4-panel door and overlight in stone doorcase with square-plan piers, moulded capitals and hood. 2 life-sized C18 painted-lead figures of a Shepherdess and Shepherd above hood. Replaced 12- and 16-pane sashes. Victorian post box at right. Holly House has 2 replaced doors flanking central window: left door and 5-pane overlight in tooled flush surround; right door and 4-pane overlight in projecting surround with bracketed segmental hood. Windows in flush surrounds with top and bottom blocks and projecting sills: replaced casements to ground floor; 16-pane sashes above. Large circular clock face on first floor. Continuous steeply-pitched roof hipped at left. 3 ridge stacks with top bands. Right return of Holly House has reverse-stepped gable. 2-storey, 2-bay late C19 wing on left rear of Public House.
C20 additions on left return and rear of Public House are not of special interest.
xThe lead figures are said to have been imported from France as "Works of Art" to beat an embargo on lead imports during the Napoleonic Wars.
Listing NGR: NZ2211453837
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 109401
- 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.
Map
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 12-Jul-2026 at 14:34:46.
Download a full scale map (PDF)End of official list entry
All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.