Main Kennel Block
MAIN KENNEL BLOCK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1153858
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Main Kennel Block
- Statutory Address:
- MAIN KENNEL BLOCK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1153858
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1969
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Main Kennel Block
- Statutory Address 1:
- MAIN KENNEL BLOCK
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:
- MAIN KENNEL BLOCK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Meldon
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 12559 84126
Details
MELDON RIVERGREEN KENNELS NZ 18 SW NZ 125841 Main kennel block 15/124 (formerly listed as kennels at Meldon Park 20.10.69 Farm) GV II Planned farm buildings. Early C19. Converted into Morpeth Hunt Kennels 1889. Squared and tooled stone; slate roofs. E plan with central section carried back to rear. Elevation to road: central loose box with blocked segmental arch and hipped roof; 2-storey section with open-pedimented gable behind, flanked by yard walls with gabled coping and piers. Left yard enclosed by single-storey ranges to rear, with 2 segmental-headed arches, and to left, with boarded door flanked by small windows; mounting block on right. Right yard: range to rear 2 storeys, 5 bays. 2 segmental-headed arches, part-slatted windows above. The 5th bay and the range to the right of the yard were raised to 2 storeys in late C19; part-slatted windows on lst floor. End to road has pitching door with hoist above. Rear elevation: central block, former threshing barn, has large corniced ridge stack and segmental arch in left return. Circular paved area to right indicates site of gin-gang. To left a single-storey range, to far right kennelman's house (q.v.). Hipped roofs.
Listing NGR: NZ1255984126
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 238356
- 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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