Ushaw Home Farm Pigsties and Walls Attached to East
USHAW HOME FARM PIGSTIES AND WALLS ATTACHED TO EAST
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1185965
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Ushaw Home Farm Pigsties and Walls Attached to East
- Statutory Address:
- USHAW HOME FARM PIGSTIES AND WALLS ATTACHED TO EAST
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- Reference:
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- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1185965
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Ushaw Home Farm Pigsties and Walls Attached to East
- Statutory Address 1:
- USHAW HOME FARM PIGSTIES AND WALLS ATTACHED TO EAST
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 PIGSTIES AND WALLS ATTACHED TO EAST
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 21451 43594
Details
ESH USHAW NZ 2143 14/34 Ushaw Fome Farm pigsties and walls attached and to east
GV II
Pigsties and wall attached; part of planned farm layout. 1851-2 by Joseph Hansom. Coursed squared sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings; cast iron posts and iron-clad wood posts; roofs of Welsh slate with yellow ridge tiles, and stone gable copings. Long range of sties on north side of yard, with wide east and west entrances; south wall encloses exercise yard in front of south- west sties, and continues to yard of south-east sties.
North range has paired sties with round-arched open doorways; diagonally- recessed pairs of boarded doors flanked by square recesses over stone chutes to troughs. Cast iron posts on front walls support roof.
Round-coped wall around front of pig-yard forms boundary to road, and curves at entrances from road to farmyard. At west it forms exercise yard in front of pent-roofed sty with open front, the roof supported on iron-covered wood posts, and now partly blocked; at east it joins east wall of third building with yard on west side, and boarded Dutch door in east facing farmyard entrance; feeding chute on north side; hipped roof.
Part of the planned economy of the running of Ushaw College, with the pigs fed by the waste from the college kitchens.
Short wall to east encloses house garden and corresponds to south-west pigsty, forming walled entrance to farmyard.
Listing NGR: NZ2145143594
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 350540
- 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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