Riding Farmhouse and Attached Outbuildings
RIDING FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS, ST JOHN LEE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1154347
- Date first listed:
- 24-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Riding Farmhouse and Attached Outbuildings
- Statutory Address:
- RIDING FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS, ST JOHN LEE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1154347
- Date first listed:
- 24-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Riding Farmhouse and Attached Outbuildings
- Statutory Address 1:
- RIDING FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS, ST JOHN LEE
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:
- RIDING FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS, ST JOHN LEE
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 93498 65917
Details
ACOMB ST JOHN LEE NY 9365 20/52 Riding Farmhouse and attached outbuildings
GV II
House, dated 1834; outbuilding to left mid-C19, dairy to right c.1900. House roughly-squared stone with tooled-and-margined front and dressings; Welsh slate roof. Outbuilding roughly-squared stone with Welsh slate roof. Dairy rough- faced stone with tooled-and-margined dressings, wooden loggia; Lakeland slate roof with ornamental red tile ridge to gablet over entrance.
West elevation: House, 2 storeys, 3 bays, symmetrical. Raised quoins. Central flush-panelled door under patterned overlight, in raised stone surround; 12-pane sash windows with slightly-projecting sills. Coped gables with stepped end stacks. To left tall wall, with arched coping and small casement, fronts the pent outbuilding and links to farm buildings (q.v.).
Right return shows projecting semi-octagonal dairy, in surrounding 9-bay loggia with square piers and arched braces. Gablet with bargeboards over central entrance; double half-glazed doors in projecting chamfered surround, flanked by 2-light chamfered mullioned windows. Similar 3-light windows in flanking sections, all leaded latticed and margined casements with cloudy yellow glass. Canted hipped roof.
Rear elevation of house shows flush-panelled door under raised shield-shaped tablet bearing date and initials T.D.; and 12-pane sash stair window with radial glazing in round-arched head.
Interior: early C19 furnishings and fittings, notably in kitchen. Interior of dairy divided into 2 octagonal rooms,lined in white glazed brick, one with marble shelves, floor and central fountain; boarded ceilings with central traceried vents.
Listing NGR: NY9349865917
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 239813
- 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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