Dun Cow Public House and 2 Mounting Blocks at Front at Rear
DUN COW PUBLIC HOUSE AND 2 MOUNTING BLOCKS AT FRONT AT REAR, 1, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1121462
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Dun Cow Public House and 2 Mounting Blocks at Front at Rear
- Statutory Address:
- DUN COW PUBLIC HOUSE AND 2 MOUNTING BLOCKS AT FRONT AT REAR, 1, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1121462
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Dun Cow Public House and 2 Mounting Blocks at Front at Rear
- Statutory Address 1:
- DUN COW PUBLIC HOUSE AND 2 MOUNTING BLOCKS AT FRONT AT REAR, 1, CHURCH STREET
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:
- DUN COW PUBLIC HOUSE AND 2 MOUNTING BLOCKS AT FRONT AT REAR, 1, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bishop Middleham
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 32879 31424
Details
NZ 33 SW BISHOP MIDDLEHAM CHURCH STREET (East side)
7/1 No. 1 (Dun Cow Public House) and 2 mounting blocks at front at rear GV II
Public house and stable, now all public house with mounting blocks at front and rear. Mid C18. Painted rough render with pointed ashlar dressings; right return thinly-rendered limestone rubble with brick patching; roof French tiles with C20 brick chimneys. Boulder mounting blocks, that at front painted. 2 storeys, 8 bays. 3 left-bays have 4-panel door at centre in panelled reveals and Tuscan doorcase with flat pilasters and large cornice; painted low-relief panel above showing cow and C17-style figures. Renewed windows in flanking bays have flat stone lintels and projecting stone sills; C20 glazing on ground floor, late C19 sashes above with lintels at eaves. 3-light C20 window on ground floor in fourth bay; plainer window on first floor in fifth. Blocked stable arch in sixth bay, with window inserted; lower right end bays have boarded door recessed in partly-blocked arch, and C20 window in similar first-floor arched opening. End chimneys on C20 external stacks, and ridge chimney at right of third bay; 2 lower ridges over right 5 bays. Large rear full-width one-storey outshut rising to eaves under catslide roof.
Mounting blocks in front of eighth bay, and beside rear entrance of sixth bay.
Interior shows dogleg stair in rear outshut with moulded ramped handrail on column-and-vase balusters. First floor has one C18 cupboard with 2 fielded panels, and some doors with 4 similar panels.
Listing NGR: NZ3287931424
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 112207
- 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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