Park Head Farmhouse
PARK HEAD FARMHOUSE, A 688
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1196453
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Park Head Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- PARK HEAD FARMHOUSE, A 688
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1196453
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Park Head Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARK HEAD FARMHOUSE, A 688
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:
- PARK HEAD FARMHOUSE, A 688
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 23042 31042
Details
BISHOP AUCKLAND
NZ23SW A 688 634-1/2/7 (West side (off)) Park Head Farmhouse
GV II
Farmhouse with outbuildings adjoining. Now private house and outhouses. Early C18 with late C18 alterations. Rubble with quoins and painted ashlar dressings; concrete tiled roof with stone gable copings and brick chimneys. PLAN: L-plan enclosing 2 sides of farmyard, the north with adjoining shelter shed and former henhouse, the west a double range with outbuilding adjoining on south end and facing yard. EXTERIOR: garden front to north has 2-storey, 4:1 bays; at left, long one-storey outbuilding. Main range has wide blank first bay. 4-bay part: ground floor has painted stone mullions to canted bay window in third bay, with early C19 glazing bars and central horizontal sliding sash, and hipped roof; to left of this, renewed fixed light, and to right a 2-light casement, both under flat stone lintels. On first floor, projecting stone sills to 16-pane sash over bay window, with lintel at eaves, and to small C20 sash at left with painted flat stone lintel. One-bay part at right: gable of second west range and has painted ashlar surround to oculus stair light at bottom left. 4-bay range has gable on left return; roof hipped at right; second west range has hipped roof. Stone chimneys on left end gable, on ridge of second range, and in valley between 2 west ranges. Long left one-storey range blank, with small overlight to boarded door at right. Right return facing park has 3-light windows with central opening lights; flat stone lintels on ground floor, timber lintels on first floor. Rear elevation to yard has entrance in C20 extruded porch; outbuilding attached to west range has alternate block jambs to central boarded door; lugged stone jambs, flat stone lintels and sills to flanking ventilator openings. Shelter shed at east end of north range has 4 segmental stone arches, and in right return a blocked low arch possibly originally for removing manure. INTERIOR of house shows bolection-moulded stone fire surround in ground-floor front left room; c1800 6-panelled doors and some c1900 chimney pieces; straight flight closed stair in second west range.
Listing NGR: NZ2304231042
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 385622
- 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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