Cistern at NZ 2221 5390, 800 Metres West of Park Head Farmhouse
CISTERN AT NZ 2221 5390, 800 METRES WEST OF PARK HEAD FARMHOUSE, AUCKLAND PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1196450
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Cistern at NZ 2221 5390, 800 Metres West of Park Head Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- CISTERN AT NZ 2221 5390, 800 METRES WEST OF PARK HEAD FARMHOUSE, AUCKLAND PARK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1196450
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Cistern at NZ 2221 5390, 800 Metres West of Park Head Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- CISTERN AT NZ 2221 5390, 800 METRES WEST OF PARK HEAD FARMHOUSE, AUCKLAND PARK
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:
- CISTERN AT NZ 2221 5390, 800 METRES WEST OF PARK HEAD FARMHOUSE, AUCKLAND PARK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 22233 30897
Details
BISHOP AUCKLAND
NZ23SW AUCKLAND PARK 634-1/2/14 (West side (off)) Cistern at NZ 2221 5390, 800 metres west of Park Head Farmhouse
GV II
Cistern. Mid C18 with C20 addition and alteration. Ashlar with C20 brick addition. Ashlar-lined pit 1m square and two-thirds metre deep has sides raised in yellow brick. On west side an ashlar channel, cut from solid stone, leads to a stone sink with rebates in top and iron bar leaded in one side and originally fastening across centre. Further ashlar channel blocks scattered in ground nearby, and paved surround to cistern broken and dislodged. From this water flowed to the pyramidal Well Head (qv) 100m to west. An important survival of the C18 arrangement for water supply to the Bishop of Durham's Palace (Auckland Castle, qv).
Listing NGR: NZ2223330897
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 385609
- 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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