Hunderthwaite Farmhouse and Attached Farmbuildings
HUNDERTHWAITE FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED FARMBUILDINGS, HUNDERTHWAITE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1160321
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Hunderthwaite Farmhouse and Attached Farmbuildings
- Statutory Address:
- HUNDERTHWAITE FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED FARMBUILDINGS, HUNDERTHWAITE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1160321
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Hunderthwaite Farmhouse and Attached Farmbuildings
- Statutory Address 1:
- HUNDERTHWAITE FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED FARMBUILDINGS, HUNDERTHWAITE
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:
- HUNDERTHWAITE FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED FARMBUILDINGS, HUNDERTHWAITE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hunderthwaite
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 98616 21021
Details
HUNDERTHWAITE HUNDERTHWAITE NY 92 SE (South side) 10/86 Farmhouse and attached farmbuildings II Farmhouse and attached farmbuildings. Farmhouse dated 1730 (on door lintel) built by William Dent; farmhouse and farmbuildings altered in mid-late C19. Dressed and rubble sandstone; house, formerly heather thatched, has Welsh slate roof and stone chimneys; farmbuildings have stone-flagged roofs. Altered cross- passage, linear plan with attached flanking farmbuildings.
2-storey farmhouse. Wide, 2-bay garden front has replaced casements in projecting, nearly-square surrounds. Replaced door to left with lintel inscribed 17 WD 30. Steeply-pitched roof. External gable chimneys have stacks with top ledges.
2-storey farmbuildings have flush quoins. Scattered boarded and Dutch doors and first-floor openings in projecting tooled surrounds. Long left range has external stone stairway near farmhouse end. Shorter right range has scattered breathers. Low-pitched roofs with coped gables.
Several single-storey rear outshuts, under stone and slate lean-to roofs, have replaced fenestration. Right outshut has tall external chimney.
Interior not inspected but said to retain original features including panelled doors and upper crucks.
(V. Chapman, "Heather thatched buildings in the Northern Pennines", Transactions of the Architectural and Archaeological Society of Northumberland and Durham, New Series Vol 6, 1982).
Listing NGR: NY9861621021
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 111252
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Transactions of the Architectural and Archaeological Society of Durham and North in Transactions of the Architectural and Archaeological Society of Durham and North, (1982)
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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