Low Dryburn Farmhouse
LOW DRYBURN FARMHOUSE, NORTH END
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1160380
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Low Dryburn Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- LOW DRYBURN FARMHOUSE, NORTH END
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1160380
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1970
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 10-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Low Dryburn Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOW DRYBURN FARMHOUSE, NORTH END
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:
- LOW DRYBURN FARMHOUSE, NORTH END
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- City of Durham
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 26506 43400
Details
DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE NORTH END NZ 24 SE 4/280 Low Dryburn farmhouse (formerly listed 19.2.70 in North Road)
GV II
Farmhouse, now house. Early C18 with alterations. Rendered rubble sandstone and rubble; pantiled roof on extensions; main roof of French tiles; brick chimneys. 2 storeys, one bay with one-storey, one-bay extensions at each end and later one-storey front extension. Renewed door at left of central bays; extension projects at right; late C19 and renewed windows. Steeply-pitched roofs.
Interior: enclosed dog-leg stair has closed string, barley-sugar twist balusters and rounded handrail with side groove. Central roof has coupled principals and through purlins; re-used crucks in left extension. Ground floor ceiling beams; first floor has old planks.
Several small rear extensions not of interest.
Source: H.M. Roberts, 'Cruck-framed roofs in the City of Durham : preliminary notes on identified examples'. Transactions of Architectural and Archaeological Society of Durham and Northumberland, new series V, 91-96.
Listing NGR: NZ2650643400
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 110332
- 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, Vol. 5, (1980), 91-96
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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