25, LOW STARTFORTH ROAD
25, LOW STARTFORTH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1121655
- Date first listed:
- 28-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- 25, LOW STARTFORTH ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- 25, LOW STARTFORTH ROAD
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- Date:
- 2001-08-15
- Reference:
- IOE01/04821/06
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1121655
- Date first listed:
- 28-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- 25, LOW STARTFORTH ROAD
- Statutory Address 1:
- 25, LOW STARTFORTH 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:
- 25, LOW STARTFORTH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Startforth
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 04592 16284
Details
NZ 0416 SE STARTFORTH LOW STARTFORTH ROAD (East side)
11/180 No. 25
GV II
Cottage, mid-C17, part of a larger house. Roof pitch lowered in later C18. Roughly-squared stone with cut dressings; C20 concrete tile roof except for stone slates on outshut kitchen. 2 storeys + attic, 2 narrow bays. Renewed door in left bay in window architrave re-set on lower jambs of original doorway; relieving arch above. 4-pane sash window on right with tooled C19 lintel; original door lintel re-set as sill. 1st floor sashes, lost glazing bars, in architraves. Attic windows, now blocked, in architraves. Old right end stack. Right return shows small blocked attic light.
Rear right stair turret shows 12-pane Yorkshire sash and blocked 2-light flat mullioned window on left return. Left 1-storey kitchen outshut.
Interior: wooden winder stair in turret. 1st floor C17 ceiling of 6 square panels, with moulded plastered beams; central beam on a massive stone corbel in south wall. Roof has two nailed collar-beam trusses, re-using older timbers.
Extended further west until the later Cl8, when the adjacent No. 23 was built.
Listing NGR: NZ0459216284
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 111771
- 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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