Sleekburn Cottage Farmhouse

SLEEKBURN COTTAGE FARMHOUSE, BARRINGTON ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1153249
Date first listed:
18-Dec-1986
List Entry Name:
Sleekburn Cottage Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
SLEEKBURN COTTAGE FARMHOUSE, BARRINGTON ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1153249
Date first listed:
18-Dec-1986
List Entry Name:
Sleekburn Cottage Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
SLEEKBURN COTTAGE FARMHOUSE, BARRINGTON 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
SLEEKBURN COTTAGE FARMHOUSE, BARRINGTON ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Choppington
National Grid Reference:
NZ 26762 83384

Details

BEDLINGTON BARRINGTON ROAD NZ 28 SE NZ 268834 (North side) Sleekburn

5/51 Sleekburn Cottage Farmhouse

GV II

House as lodge, c.1800. Squared tooled stone with ashlar door surround; Welsh slate roof with rebuilt brick stacks. Gothick style. 1 storey + attic, 3 bays; open-pedimented central bay set slightly forward with flush-panelled door and triple-arched overlight in surround with stepped pilasters and hood, flanked by blind windows with pointed arches, with blank quatrefoil above. End bays have 4-pane sash windows with slightly-projecting sills. Coped gables; end stacks rebuilt on old bases. Returns show low-pitched gables with coping returned on deep footstones, with 3 windows to ground floor and one, centrally placed, to attic bedroom; one ground-floor window blocked on each return.

Interior: Ground floor has 6-paneldoors and folding panelled shutters; contemporary panelled fireplace in sitting room. Dogleg open-string stair with stick balusters, moulded newels and ramped moulded handrail. 4-panel doors to bedrooms; collar-beam roof trusses with purlins secured by tusk tenons.

Domestic accommodation now extended into adjacent Farmbuildings range (q.v.).

Listing NGR: NZ2676283384

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
235922
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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