Towler Hill Farmhouse
TOWLER HILL FARMHOUSE, LARTINGTON LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1159976
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Towler Hill Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- TOWLER HILL FARMHOUSE, LARTINGTON LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1159976
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Towler Hill Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOWLER HILL FARMHOUSE, LARTINGTON LANE
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:
- TOWLER HILL FARMHOUSE, LARTINGTON LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Cotherstone
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 03641 17884
Details
COTHERSTONE LARTINGTON LANE NZ 01 NW (North side,off) 16/50 Towler Hill Farmhouse II Farmhouse, now 2 dwellings. Mid C18 house and late C18-early C19 left section, the latter a byre conversion. Squared rubble; sandstone-flagged roof and stone chimney stacks. Continuous, 2-storey front: 3-bay house, and left section of 2 wide bays. Flush quoins at ends and at joint between sections. Openings have stone, flat-arched lintels with segmental tops. Left section openings altered in late C20. Replaced 2-pane sashes.
House to right has central replaced glazed door and overlight; paired sashes in late C20 opening to left, single sash to right and 3 windows above. Left section has replaced partly-glazed door to right; single and paired sashes to left and 2 windows above. Continuous roof has coped gables and a coping above junction; all copings have shaped kneelers. Right end stack, central and left ridge stacks; all with top bands and water tables. Rear has scattered, replaced 2-pane sashes.
Interior: right ground-floor room of original farmhouse has large stone fireplace with projecting lintel on corbelled jambs.
Listing NGR: NZ0364117884
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 111213
- 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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