Ushaw Home Farm Main Block and Wall Attached
USHAW HOME FARM MAIN BLOCK AND WALL ATTACHED
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1185963
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Ushaw Home Farm Main Block and Wall Attached
- Statutory Address:
- USHAW HOME FARM MAIN BLOCK AND WALL ATTACHED
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1185963
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jan-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 24-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Ushaw Home Farm Main Block and Wall Attached
- Statutory Address 1:
- USHAW HOME FARM MAIN BLOCK AND WALL ATTACHED
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:
- USHAW HOME FARM MAIN BLOCK AND WALL ATTACHED
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Esh
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 21467 43616
Details
ESH USHAW NZ 2143 14/30 Ushaw Home Farm Main Block and 17.1.67 wall attached (formerly listed as Farm buildings adjoining Ushaw Farm on the east)
GV II*
Planned farm main range, incorporating cowhouses, loose boxes and stables with lofts; and wall attached. 1851-2 by Joseph Hansom. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof with yellow roll-moulded ridge tiles and stone gable copings. Sandstone rubble wall. E-plan. Gothic style.
Main block 3 storeys to front, 2 to rear, with front gables over end bays and projecting central bay; 7 bays between gables, 17 bays in all; 2-storey wings with 10 bays on inner returns; 2-bay returns to central projection. Chamfered flat-pointed arches over boarded doors and Dutch doors on ground floor; similar heads to small ground and first-floor windows; some paired; tall 2-centred-arched second-floor openings, partly blocked and partly louvred. Central gable has blocked boarded door in 2-centred arch on each floor, and smaller windows flanking, above and paired below the top door; pulley projects above top window. Vent slits on first floor of wings. Each wing has open arch adjacent to main block, leading to steps at left and ramp at right to higher rear ground level. Rear has wide cart entrances below loft openings.
High retaining wall curves through c.75° from left wing, the round-coped parapet forming round enclosure behind at higher level.
A well-planned layout originally, intended for milk cows on ground floor, fat cattle on second and haylofts above; turnips were rolled directly into cowhouse from chute (q.v.). in field behind.
Source: D. Milburn, A History of Ushaw College, Durham 1964.
Listing NGR: NZ2146743616
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 350536
- 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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