West Middleton Farmhouse
WEST MIDDLETON FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1161273
- Date first listed:
- 28-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- West Middleton Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- WEST MIDDLETON FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1161273
- Date first listed:
- 28-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- West Middleton Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- WEST MIDDLETON FARMHOUSE
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:
- WEST MIDDLETON FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wycliffe with Thorpe
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 12956 12753
Details
NZ 11 SW WYCLIFFE WITH THORPE WEST MIDDLETON
7/194 West Middleton Farmhouse
GV II
House. Late C17 probably incorporating earlier fabric; rear wing extended in C18; roof renewed and eaves level raised in 1952. Rubble with cut dressings; C20 red tile roof with some stacks rebuilt in brick; stone slates on single- storey part. Main part of house double-span.
3 storeys, 5 bays. Rusticated quoins. Central C20 glazed door in architrave with broken pediment. Single ground-floor window between traces of blocked openings on left, and 2 windows on right. 1st floor central keyed oval panel with 2 windows on each side; all windows of lower floors are 16-pane casements in architraves. 2nd floor has central 6-pane casement between 12-pane casements; jambs and slightly-projecting sills re-set when wall heightened in 1952. Coped gables on moulded kneelers; end stacks rebuilt on old bases. Set back to right a single-storey bay with boarded door and small chamfered window.
Left return shows C20 porch on left; 12-pane casement and 4-pane sash above; 2 small stone-surround windows, one blocked. 2 similar small windows on right return. Rear elevation in 2 sections: earlier right part shows chamfered ground-floor window, 16-pane sash and 12-pane Yorkshire sash in former 2-light mullioned stair window. C18 left part shows 3 stone-surround windows and 12-pane Yorkshire sash. Stepped-and-corniced end stacks to rear span.
Interior: Inside C20 porch is stone-surround doorway. Older blocked door on right re-using earlier lintel with triple pointed arches under panel with date H? 163(?) and initials I A, partly cut away by later oval overlight. West ground floor room has fireplace, in architrave under moulded cornice, re-set from bedroom above; similar but smaller fireplace in east bedroom. Old chamfered beams. Dog-leg closed-string stair with twist balusters, moulded handrail and square newels with knob finials.
C20 shed to east and C20 west porch are not of interest.
Listing NGR: NZ1295612753
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 111788
- 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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