ACOMB HIGH HOUSE

ACOMB HIGH HOUSE, ACOMB VILLAGE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1153915
Date first listed:: 24-May-1988
List Entry Name:: ACOMB HIGH HOUSE
Statutory Address:: ACOMB HIGH HOUSE, ACOMB VILLAGE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1153915
Date first listed:: 24-May-1988
List Entry Name:: ACOMB HIGH HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: ACOMB HIGH HOUSE, ACOMB VILLAGE

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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

Location

Statutory Address:: ACOMB HIGH HOUSE, ACOMB VILLAGE

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

District:: Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Acomb
National Grid Reference:: NY 93364 66532

Details

ACOMB ACOMB VILLAGE NY 9366 (South side) 18/14 Acomb High House

II

House. Late C17 with new front block added in early C19 ('recently enlarged' in 1823) and further alterations c.1870. Front tooled stone with raised tooled-and-margined quoins and dressings, rear coursed rubble with roughly- shaped quoins. Welsh slate roofs on early C19 parts, stone slates on rear wing, brick stacks.

Front in 2 sections. Main part 2 storeys, 4 bays. Plinth, sill bands. C20 gabled porch, in bay 3; 12-pane sash windows. Coped gables with end stacks. Lower part to left has 2 doorways in old surrounds, probably re-set; that to far I left has chamfer, stepped on lintel dated 1694 with initials T A.

Rear elevation 2 storeys, 3 + 3 bays. Taller left part has central 6-panel door under leaded latticed overlight in raised alternating-block surround, inside C20 porch; late C19 2- and 3-light casement windows. Coped gables with moulded kneelers, end stacks rebuilt on old bases. Lower right part shows similar fenestration. Left return shows blocked chamfered light to 1st floor.

C20 porches not of interest.

Listing NGR: NY9336466532

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 239774
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.