High Birk Hat Farmhouse, Attached Barn and Byre
HIGH BIRK HAT FARMHOUSE, ATTACHED BARN AND BYRE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1121016
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- High Birk Hat Farmhouse, Attached Barn and Byre
- Statutory Address:
- HIGH BIRK HAT FARMHOUSE, ATTACHED BARN AND BYRE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1121016
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- High Birk Hat Farmhouse, Attached Barn and Byre
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGH BIRK HAT FARMHOUSE, ATTACHED BARN AND BYRE
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:
- HIGH BIRK HAT FARMHOUSE, ATTACHED BARN AND BYRE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hunderthwaite
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 93338 18761
Details
HUNDERTHWAITE BALDERSDALE NY 91 NW 14/78 High Birk Hat Farmhouse, attached barn and byre GV II
Farmhouse, barn and byre. Dated 1741 (on door lintel) with mid C19 alterations. Squared rubble. Stone-flagged roofs and stone chimney stacks. Farmhouse with barn attached to left and byre to right.
2-storey, 4-bay farmhouse has replaced 4-panel door and 3-pane overlight in second bay. Door in flush surround with lintel inscribed 17 IID 41. Windows with flush lintels and projecting chamfered sills: small 12-pane sash above door; flanking 16-pane sashes. Roof with coped gables and shaped kneelers. End stacks with top bands and water tables.
2-storey barn has blank front wall and coped left gable. Lower 3-bay byre and loft. Central boarded door in flush surround flanked by partly-glazed hit-and- miss windows; boarded opening above door. Low-pitched roof. Right return of byre has external stone stair to boarded door.
Listing NGR: NY9333818761
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 111243
- 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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