Cart Shed, Stables and Loft to South East of Park Head Farmhouse

CART SHED, STABLES AND LOFT TO SOUTH EAST OF PARK HEAD FARMHOUSE, A 688

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1208971
Date first listed:
23-Jun-1994
List Entry Name:
Cart Shed, Stables and Loft to South East of Park Head Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
CART SHED, STABLES AND LOFT TO SOUTH EAST OF PARK HEAD FARMHOUSE, A 688

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1208971
Date first listed:
23-Jun-1994
List Entry Name:
Cart Shed, Stables and Loft to South East of Park Head Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
CART SHED, STABLES AND LOFT TO SOUTH EAST OF PARK HEAD FARMHOUSE, A 688

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
CART SHED, STABLES AND LOFT TO SOUTH EAST OF 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 23051 31010

Details

BISHOP AUCKLAND

NZ23SW A 688 634-1/2/8 (West side (off)) Cart shed, stables and loft to south-east of Park Head Farmhouse

GV II

Cart shed, stables, loft and barn, and storage shed. Probably late C18 barn with early C19 cart shed and loft; early C19 hemmel and storage shed with hemmel wall. Coursed rubble with quoins; roofs pantiles and concrete tiles, with Welsh slate on storage shed. Hemmel wall rubble with irregular block coping. T-plan. 2 storeys, 3:6 bays to east range; one low storey and 3 wide bays to hemmel and storage shed at right-angles. 3-bay cart shed at left of main range has boarded doors in central of 3 segmental-headed vehicle arches with voussoirs. Left arch half-blocked, with hit and miss vent at left and boarded door at right; right arch has recessed boarded doors. Plain stone surrounds to 2 small loft openings above, between arches. Earlier long range at right has thin wood lintels to small vent at left, single boarded door in 2nd bay, and small vent above at left. Plain stone surrounds to 2 loft openings with boarded shutter to first and slatted vent to 2nd. Right bays obscured by hemmel breaking forward. Hemmel has single boarded door under wedge stone lintel; storage shed at right has sliding boarded doors. Roofs steeply pitched over first build, with pantiles; low pitched and hipped at left over 2nd build with concrete tiles; low pitched over hemmel and storage shed with Welsh slate. Left return has flat stone lintel over hit and miss vent with top glazing bars. Rear elevation to road shows ground-floor vent slits and blocked door, with pitching door and boarded openings above. Hemmel wall in front of cobbled forecourt to hemmel and storage shed is coursed rubble with roughly rounded coping.

Listing NGR: NZ2305131010

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Legacy System number:
385623
Legacy System:
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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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