Primrose Cottage

PRIMROSE COTTAGE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1154998
Date first listed:
15-Jul-1987
List Entry Name:
Primrose Cottage
Statutory Address:
PRIMROSE COTTAGE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1154998
Date first listed:
15-Jul-1987
List Entry Name:
Primrose Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
PRIMROSE COTTAGE

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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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

Location

Statutory Address:
PRIMROSE COTTAGE

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

District:
Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Seaton Valley
National Grid Reference:
NZ 33421 76566

Details

SEATON SLUICE HOLYWELL DENE NZ 3376 NZ 33427657 14/115 Primrose Cottage GV II

House, C17, two builds, with late C19 alterations. Roughly-squared stone with cut dressings; pantile roof with old brick stacks. East elevation 2 storeys, 3 irregular bays. Vertical-panelled doors in end bays with small 4-pane case- ment between and 12-pane Yorkshire sash on far left; 1st floor shows 6-pane Yorkshire sash to left in opening of earlier mullioned window, and two 12-pane sashes, the right renewed. Coped gables with moulded kneelers; left end and ridge stacks, the former rebuilt on stone base. Left return shows 2 chamfered attic windows, that to right formerly of 2 lights, now containing 4-pane Yorkshire sash. Right return shows 12-pane sashes, the upper renewed, under timber lintels, and 4-pane Yorkshire sash to attic, set in blocking of wider window. Brick outshut to rear is not of special interest. Formerly one of the two Seaton Lodge Cottages; the Lodge itself, Sir John Delaval's 'finest thatched house in the kingdom', stood a short distance north and was demolished c1965.

Listing NGR: NZ3342176566

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
236079
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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