Hopehead Farmhouse and Adjacent Buildings
HOPEHEAD FARMHOUSE AND ADJACENT BUILDINGS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1155000
- Date first listed:
- 23-Aug-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Hopehead Farmhouse and Adjacent Buildings
- Statutory Address:
- HOPEHEAD FARMHOUSE AND ADJACENT BUILDINGS
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1155000
- Date first listed:
- 23-Aug-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Hopehead Farmhouse and Adjacent Buildings
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOPEHEAD FARMHOUSE AND ADJACENT BUILDINGS
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:
- HOPEHEAD FARMHOUSE AND ADJACENT BUILDINGS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Allendale
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 83067 47349
Details
NY 84 NW ALLENDALE SWIN HOPE
21/110 Hopehead Farmhouse and adjacent buildings
II
Bastle house late C16 or early C17, 2nd floor added late C17. Farmhouse and barn to south-west C18 altered C19. Bastle rubble with roughly-shaped quoins, C20 asbestos roof. House and barn rubble with cut quoins; stone slate roofs, stone stacks. House 3 storeys, 2 wide bays. Groundflarhas inserted cart entrance with timber lintel, flanked by blocked windows; 1st and 2nd floors altered sashes. Barn to left 3 storeys, various openings. Bastle to right 3 storeys, 2 bays. 2nd floor has 2 square windows with chamfered surrounds, above roof of later outbuilding. Recesses of 1st floor door and flanking windows visible internally. Right return: bastle end wall has chamfered Tudor-arched door with illegible lintel inscription. Rear elevation; house has outshut with various openings. Bastle has small 1st floor window with chamfered surround; to right enlarged ground-floor loop with inserted pitching door above. Interior of bastle shows inserted C18 fireplaces and scar of earlier hood. Central upper-cruck roof truss.
The bastle is one of the best preserved in Northumberland; the late C17 heightening is paralleled at Hole Bastle in Bellingham parish.
Listing NGR: NY8306747349
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 240230
- 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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