HIGH WOOLEY FARMHOUSE AND COTTAGE

HIGH WOOLEY FARMHOUSE AND COTTAGE, WOLSINGHAM ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1159106
Date first listed:: 07-Dec-1987
List Entry Name:: HIGH WOOLEY FARMHOUSE AND COTTAGE
Statutory Address:: HIGH WOOLEY FARMHOUSE AND COTTAGE, WOLSINGHAM ROAD

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Date:: 2004-08-06
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1159106
Date first listed:: 07-Dec-1987
List Entry Name:: HIGH WOOLEY FARMHOUSE AND COTTAGE
Statutory Address 1:: HIGH WOOLEY FARMHOUSE AND COTTAGE, WOLSINGHAM ROAD

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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Location

Statutory Address:: HIGH WOOLEY FARMHOUSE AND COTTAGE, WOLSINGHAM ROAD

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

District:: County Durham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Brancepeth
National Grid Reference:: NZ 17726 39157

Details

BRANCEPETH WOLSINGHAM ROAD NZ 13 NE (South side, off) 4/44 High Wooley Farmhouse and cottage II Farmhouse and cottage adjoining to left. Early C18 farmhouse and probably early C19 cottage. Coursed sandstone rubble. Asbestos tiles on farmhouse roof and Welsh slates on cottage roof. Large C19 cream-brick chimney stacks. Farmhouse 2 storeys and attic, 3 bays. Squared alternating quoins. Replaced door and overlight at left in lobed, bolection-moulded surround. Replaced sashes and casements in scattered C19 and C20 openings. Boarded opening under eaves at right. Steeply-pitched roof with swept eaves and raised verges. Tall end stacks. Lower 2-storey, 4-bay cottage has replaced door behind late C20, off-centre brick porch. Replaced sashes with flush lintels and projecting sills. 2 blocked windows on first floor. Pitched roof with left end stack. 2 pigeon-loft openings with stone alighting ledges in gable on right return of farmhouse. Single-storey, one-bay wing on right return of farmhouse has boarded door and steeply-pitched roof. Narrow 2-storey stair wing, under pent roof, on centre rear of farmhouse. Similar 2-storey gabled wing on rear of cottage.

Listing NGR: NZ1772639157

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Legacy System number:: 109925
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.