Great Chilton Farmhouse
GREAT CHILTON FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1121475
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Great Chilton Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- GREAT CHILTON FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1121475
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Great Chilton Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- GREAT CHILTON FARMHOUSE
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:
- GREAT CHILTON FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ferryhill
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 29877 30319
Details
NZ 23 SE FERRYHILL GREAT CHILTON
6/27 Great Chilton Farmhouse
II
Farmhouse. C17 with C18 and C19 alterations. Pebble-dashed render with painted ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings and painted rendered chimneys. L-plan. 3-storey, 3-bay main block with 2-storey, 2-bay right addition. Main block has central half-glazed panelled door; large C19 sashes in outer bays on first 2 floorsand small 4-pane fixed lights on top floor have projecting stone sills; first-floor windows the largest; top- floor windows slightly to right of each bay. Roof has moulded kneelers supporting raised copings which fade into massive stepped stacks with ashlar cornices.
Extension has glazed door at right, and late C19 sashes; long conservatory at right with pent roof. Right end gable coping; corniced chimneys at centre and right end of ridge. Left return of main block shows external stack. Rear has 2-storey wing to second bay of main house; pent one-storey extensions to outer bays; 2-storey extension to first bay of C19 build.
Interior shows large stone Tudor-arched fire surround on ground floor in first bay, with ogee-stopped chamfers to moulded jambs; smaller fire surround of same period transferred from first,floor, first bay to ground floor, third bay. Large panelled, corniced C17 stone fire surround in left bay of C19 build is imported from Gloucestershire.
C19 open-well stair in rear wing has narrow ramped handrail on stick balusters. Owner reports stone-mullioned window found beneath plaster in rear wing.
Altered roof has collared trusses with overlapping purlins, and waney rafters.
Listing NGR: NZ2987730319
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 112235
- 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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