Townfield Cottages
TOWNFIELD COTTAGES
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1229601
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Townfield Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- TOWNFIELD COTTAGES
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- Date:
- 2003-07-13
- Reference:
- IOE01/10963/10
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1229601
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Townfield Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOWNFIELD COTTAGES
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:
- TOWNFIELD COTTAGES
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hunstanworth
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 95124 48324
Details
HUNSTANWORTH TOWNFIELD NY 94 NE 5/92 (inset) Townfield Cottages
GV II
2 houses. Probably c.1863 by Teulon. Coursed, roughly-squared sandstone with ashlar and yellow brick dressings and quoins; roofs of mixed blue and green slates; stone chimneys, one with red brick coping. 2 storeys, 5 bays and one- storey, one-bay left extension set back.
Partly-glazed door in second bay under segmental brick arch; flat stone lintel over door in right end bay. Wide segmental-headed ground-floor windows in other bays, one 3-light and one with glazing bars and central wood mullion; 3 narrower first-floor windows with similar heads, all with brick jambs. Long front gable over first bay has 2 small lancets in peak; smaller gables over 2 other windows. Set-back extension has wide stone lintel over C20 window. Brick quoins. Steeply-pitched roof, half-hipped over extension; chimneys at ridge in second bay and at front, diagonally-set with central shaft, between 2 smaller gables.
Listing NGR: NY9512448324
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 404395
- 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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