Whitton Cottage Whitton Grange
WHITTON COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1155453
- Date first listed:
- 29-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Whitton Cottage Whitton Grange
- Statutory Address:
- WHITTON COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1155453
- Date first listed:
- 29-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Whitton Cottage Whitton Grange
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHITTON COTTAGE
- Statutory Address 2:
- WHITTON GRANGE
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:
- WHITTON COTTAGE
- Statutory Address:
- WHITTON GRANGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Whitton and Tosson
- National Grid Reference:
- NU0576001158
Details
NU 00 SE
4/90
TOSSON
WHITTON
Whitton Grange
and Whitton
Cottage
GV
II
House. 1921, on site of and incorporating some masonry from an earlier house.
By Robert Mauchlen for Sir Angus Watson. Ashlar with chamfered plinth; Lakeland
slate roof.
U-plan. Centre with projecting cross-gabled wings. 2 storeys, 6 windows.
Centre section: 2 semicircular steps to central panelled door in bolection-
moulded surround with shaped stone hood on brackets; lintel inscribed A 19 W
21 .
Above the door a round-headed niche with pilasters, moulded archivolt and
keystone, the base inscribed EN ATTENDANT UNE MEILLEURE. Flanking 5-light
windows on ground floor. with flat mullions, in shallow moulded surrounds; leaded
casements. Four similar 3-light windows on let floor, with floating cornices.
Wings: similar 6-light windows on each floor. Niches above. Hipped roof
with gabled wings. Two tall corniced stacks rise from angle of centre and
wings. Lean-to sun lounge on left return has corniced end piers with later
glazed infill.
Rear: irregular and picturesque with similar windows. Apsidal stair projection.
Hipped dormer.
Attached to right the former coach house and coachman's flat, now a cottage in
similar style. Steeply-pitched roof with slate-hung gable.
Listing NGR: NU0576001158
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 236329
- 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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