Barn and Gin-gang 100 Metres South West of Finchale Abbey Farmhouse
BARN AND GIN-GANG 100 METRES SOUTH WEST OF FINCHALE ABBEY FARMHOUSE, FINCHALE AVENUE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1159374
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Barn and Gin-gang 100 Metres South West of Finchale Abbey Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- BARN AND GIN-GANG 100 METRES SOUTH WEST OF FINCHALE ABBEY FARMHOUSE, FINCHALE AVENUE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1159374
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Barn and Gin-gang 100 Metres South West of Finchale Abbey Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- BARN AND GIN-GANG 100 METRES SOUTH WEST OF FINCHALE ABBEY FARMHOUSE, FINCHALE AVENUE
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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:
- BARN AND GIN-GANG 100 METRES SOUTH WEST OF FINCHALE ABBEY FARMHOUSE, FINCHALE AVENUE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Framwellgate Moor
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 29530 47106
Details
FRAMWELLGATE MOOR FINCHALE AVENUE NZ 24 NE (North side, off) 2/21 Barn and gin-gang 100m south-west of Finchale Abbey farmhouse GV II
Barn and gin-gang. Probably C17 incorporating medieval fabric; C18 and C19 alterations. Thinly-rendered sandstone rubble with quoins and ashlar dressings; roof of pantiles. One high storey, 5 bays and low front extension; gin-gang to rear. Old wood lintels, supplemented by newer beams, over wide opposed threshing doors with chamfered jambs; sill of door in front wall high above present ground level. Both doors partly blocked and with smaller boarded doors inserted under wood lintels. C19 front extension has half-hipped catslide roof on rubble piers, blocked with C20 shuttering. Left return has door, with sill above ground level, under old wood lintel; 3 tiered vent-slits in gable peak, distributed with axis to rear of present gable centre. Right return gable shows 5 holes for purlins of demolished adjacent building, under vent slit in gable peak. Rear elevation shows 2 rows of vent slits to right of door; 4 low octagonal piers, probably medieval, forming gin-gang with low walls between some; sawn-off beam in barn wall suggests gin-gang formerly roofed. Interior shows re-used tie-beam trusses, with wedges supporting 2 rows of purlins; diagonal mortices in soffits of tie-beams for braces to wall in former use. No ridge piece.
Listing NGR: NZ2951847106
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 110011
- 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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