Bowfield Cottage
BOWFIELD COTTAGE, RUTHERFORD LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1121070
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Bowfield Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- BOWFIELD COTTAGE, RUTHERFORD LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1121070
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Bowfield Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- BOWFIELD COTTAGE, RUTHERFORD 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.
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:
- BOWFIELD COTTAGE, RUTHERFORD LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bowes
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 03634 12585
Details
BOWES RUTHERFORD LANE NZ 01 SW (East side) 20/13 Bowfield Cottage II Cottage. Early C19. Squared rubble. Stone-flagged roofs and stone chimney stacks. Tudor style.
2-storey, one-bay left section and one-storey, 2-bay right section. Right section: replaced narrow double doors and latticed overlight in hollow-chamfered surround with 4-centred head under hoodmould; 2-light window to right. Left section: canted stone bay window, of 1+2+1 lights, with embattled parapet. 2- light first-floor window beneath small gable with apex finial. Windows are all mullioned with double-chamfered surrounds, replaced latticed lights and hoodmoulds. Steeply-pitched roofs with overhanging eaves and verges.
Returns have external chimneys with paired diagonal shafts.
C20 rear additions are not of special interest.
Listing NGR: NZ0363412585
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 111172
- 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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