Greenhead Farmhouse and Outbuilding Attached
GREENHEAD FARMHOUSE AND OUTBUILDING ATTACHED, A689
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1230040
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Greenhead Farmhouse and Outbuilding Attached
- Statutory Address:
- GREENHEAD FARMHOUSE AND OUTBUILDING ATTACHED, A689
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1230040
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Greenhead Farmhouse and Outbuilding Attached
- Statutory Address 1:
- GREENHEAD FARMHOUSE AND OUTBUILDING ATTACHED, A689
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:
- GREENHEAD FARMHOUSE AND OUTBUILDING ATTACHED, A689
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Stanhope
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 97725 39627
Details
STANHOPE A689(North side,off) NY 93 NE Stanhope 20/123 Greenhead farmhouse and outbuilding 31.1.67 attached II*
Farmhouse. C17 and later. Roughly-coursed and squared sandstone and limestone with plinth, quoins and ashlar dressings. Stone-flagged roof with stone gable copings. 3 storeys, 3 bays and one-storey, 2-bay right extension, the second bay later. Renewed door at left of one-storey part in moulded, flat-Tudor- arched surround. Main building has 5-light single-chamfered stone-mullioned windows, under drip moulds, with inserted fixed light between. Vertical iron bars in 2 lights of left window. Central first-floor 3-light flanked by 4- light windows, and 2 second-floor 2-light windows, in similar-style. Stone- bracketed eaves; corniced ashlar end chimneys, on corniced plinth and with one further set-back, on gable copings resting on ogee-moulded kneelers. Right extension has 12-pane sash under -flat stone lintel and 3-pane overlight; blocked narrow door and small opening at right; ridge chimney. Rear has stair wing with two 2-light windows, the lower blocked; flat Tudor-arched surround to door opposite main door.
Interior: flat Tudor-arched stone doorways to main room, to stair wing, and from stair wing to first floor; similarly-shaped chimney pieces on both floors, that on second floor at left with stepped centre moulding. One upper fireplace has smaller simpler flat Tudor-arched chimney piece inserted, and a Regency grate, partly removed, within. Pin-hung ledged and boarded studded door to main room. Large, reverse ogee-stopped chamfered beams. Closed-well close- string stair has stone lower steps; round-topped moulded handrail, with 3 simple grooves for grip on wide stick balusters; square newels. Undergoing restoration at time of survey, and tenoned foot of central upper cruck revealed in front between first and second floors; no other parts of upper crucks visible, and roof renewed.
Listing NGR: NY9772539627
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 404877
- 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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