Middridge Grange Farmhouse
MIDDRIDGE GRANGE FARMHOUSE, SHILDON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1121214
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Middridge Grange Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- MIDDRIDGE GRANGE FARMHOUSE, SHILDON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1121214
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 16-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Middridge Grange Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- MIDDRIDGE GRANGE FARMHOUSE, SHILDON ROAD
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:
- MIDDRIDGE GRANGE FARMHOUSE, SHILDON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Darlington (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Heighington
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 24470 24631
Details
NZ 22 SW HEIGHINGTON SHILDON ROAD (East side, off) 2/58 Middridge Grange 6/6/52 Farmhouse (Formerly listed as Middridge Grange) GV II* Large farmhouse. Circa 1600 with alterations and additions of c.1690, c.1720, c.1850 and c.1897. Partly-rendered coursed sandstone rubble. Welsh slate and pantiled roofs, the latter with stone-flagged eaves. Rebuilt brick chimney stacks. U-plan with centre filled by c.1720 range; left cross-wing demolished c. 1850; rear additions c.1897. Now a double-range plan. Two-gabled entrance front 2 storeys plus attics: c.1720 2-bay left part and c.1600 wing at right. Quoins at ends and junction. Central partly-glazed 6-panel door in broken-pedimented stone doorcase with eared architrave and enriched consoles. Flanking 4-pane sashes; replaced casements above, centre window in narrow architrave; blocked 2-light mullioned windows in both attics. Coped gables and shaped kneelers; off-centre roof valley to right; end stacks. 4-bay right return has flush quoins. Blocked and altered openings: original door and window jambs and fragment of hoodmould visible. Left half has late C17 cross windows under dripmoulds. Replaced windows in flush surrounds at right. Steeply-pitched roof, pantiled at left with slightly-swept flagged eaves; Welsh slates to right. End stacks. Truncated external end chimney. Mutilated left return, originally inner wall of demolished wing, has splayed first-floor window opening. Steeply-pitched pantiled roof. 2-storey, 2-bay c.1897 rear outshut. Interior: right wing contains 3 rooms with c.1720 features, including one with panelling, doors and window shutters and top entablature with pulvinated frieze. (Blocked chamfered stone doorway behind panelling). 2 upstairs rooms have similar panelling and bolection-moulded wood chimney-pieces with corniced mantels. Late C19 left rear addition is not of special interest. Historical note: The home of Colonel Anthony Byerley (died 1667) who garrisoned the house and commanded a regiment known as "Byerley's Bulldogs" in the service of Charles I during the Civil War. The farm was the home of the first Arab horse (The Byerley Turk) in Britain; from this horse and 2 others all British racing bloodstock is descended. Derelict at time of survey.
Listing NGR: NZ2447024631
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 110809
- 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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