Cowclose House and Adjacent Byre
COWCLOSE HOUSE AND ADJACENT BYRE, COW CLOSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1160281
- Date first listed:
- 28-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Cowclose House and Adjacent Byre
- Statutory Address:
- COWCLOSE HOUSE AND ADJACENT BYRE, COW CLOSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1160281
- Date first listed:
- 28-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Cowclose House and Adjacent Byre
- Statutory Address 1:
- COWCLOSE HOUSE AND ADJACENT BYRE, COW CLOSE
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:
- COWCLOSE HOUSE AND ADJACENT BYRE, COW CLOSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Barningham
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 06382 09586
Details
NZ 00 NE NZ 06380958 BARNINGHAM COW CLOSE
10/56 Cowclose House and adjacent byre
II
House and attached byre. Dated 1697 with initials I.L. on door lintel: altered and reroofed in early C19. Rubble with large cut quoins and dressings; graduated stone slate roof.
1-storey, in 2 sections: left part is 2-bay house with centre boarded door in moulded surround with dated lintel. Flanking stone-surround windows, lost carpentry, with slightly-projecting sills. To right is 2-bay byre: left bay behind added outbuilding, right bay with stable door and boarded door in heavy block surrounds.
Boarded door in similar surround at rear of byre; slit vent and blocked opening under timber lintel.
Interior of house retains fireplace with chamfered basket arch holding C19 ironwork.
Empty and in poor condition at time of survey.
Later outbuilding on east, now roofless, is not of special interest.
Listing NGR: NZ0638209586
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 111645
- 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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