Cole Hill Linked Farmbuildings
COLE HILL LINKED FARMBUILDINGS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1121515
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Cole Hill Linked Farmbuildings
- Statutory Address:
- COLE HILL LINKED FARMBUILDINGS
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- Date:
- 1999-08-12
- Reference:
- IOE01/01208/15
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1121515
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Cole Hill Linked Farmbuildings
- Statutory Address 1:
- COLE HILL LINKED FARMBUILDINGS
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:
- COLE HILL LINKED FARMBUILDINGS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Sedgefield
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 42589 31851
Details
NZ 43 SW SEDGEFIELD COLE HILL
3/32 Cole Hill linked farmbuildings
II Planned farmstead. Late C19. Light-red engineering brick in Flemish bond; timber framing; Welsh slate roofs. Linked rectangular-plan south group and U-plan north group.
South group: 5 single-storey, parallel 6-bay ranges, running north-south, enclose central covered stockyard with loose-boxes to west and stables and smithy to east. 5-gabled south front has openings, under brick segmental arches, with Dutch doors, double doors and louvred ventilators. Range 3 has lunette, with stone sill, in gable. Ranges 2 and 4 are taller and have horizontally-planked gables. Roofs have overhanging verges and eaves. East return has similar openings between brick piers and truncated chimney of former smithy to south. West wall similar.
North group: 4 parallel 2-storey ranges of varying length run east-west and are attached to north wall of south group. 8-bay barn with lean-to range to south and 3-bay timber-framed shed and 7-bay Dutch barn to north. Barn has 3 tall timber-framed east bays with iron king posts and tie beams on vertical struts. Western bays are alternating brick and timber-faced with similar openings to south group; west bay has open cart shed; east gable has large, recessed, round-arched wall panel infilled with Flemish-bond grid with headers omitted to provide ventilation. 3-bay timber-framed shed attached to 3 east bays of barn. 7-bay Dutch barn has similar framing and brick gables (east end is blind; west end has ventilated grid). All gables are coped with shaped footstones.
This farmstead is one of a group built for the Sheraton estate and is unaltered and well-preserved.
Listing NGR: NZ4258931851
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 112145
- 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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