Warden Hill Farmhouse East Part Warden Hill Farmhouse West Part and Byre Adjoining
WARDEN HILL FARMHOUSE EAST PART, A689
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1230422
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Warden Hill Farmhouse East Part Warden Hill Farmhouse West Part and Byre Adjoining
- Statutory Address:
- WARDEN HILL FARMHOUSE EAST PART, A689
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1230422
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Warden Hill Farmhouse East Part Warden Hill Farmhouse West Part and Byre Adjoining
- Statutory Address 1:
- WARDEN HILL FARMHOUSE EAST PART, A689
- Statutory Address 2:
- WARDEN HILL FARMHOUSE WEST PART AND BYRE ADJOINING, 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:
- WARDEN HILL FARMHOUSE EAST PART, A689
- Statutory Address:
- WARDEN HILL FARMHOUSE WEST PART AND BYRE ADJOINING, 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 91548 38410
Details
STANHOPE A689 (North side) NY 93 NW Westgate 19/127 Warden Hill farmhouse east part; Warden Hill farmhouse west part and byre adjoining II
Farmhouse, now 2 houses, with byre and loft adjoining at left. C17 with alterations. Sandstone rubble with some quoins and ashlar dressings; stone- flagged roof; right house painted stone. 2 storeys; 4,3, and 4 bays.
Central house has glazed C20 door at left with irregular jambs under thin stone lintel; 2 renewed 3-light ground-floor casements under full-width dripstring made with throughstones; renewed light above at left and blocked light above at right have similar dripstrings and thin stone sills. Second house at right has C20 porch in second bay; renewed casements in plain stone surrounds; some drip strings. Roof has 3 low ridge chimneys. Byre has 2nd-bay boarded Dutch door; boarded door under similar lintel at right end; thin stone lintels and sills to windows in other bays, those on upper floor smaller.
Rear elevation shows some small single lights with chamfered stone surrounds, one blocked and one with vertical iron bar.
Historical note: the Weardale chest was kept here, the C18 muniment chest of the community of the Forest of Weardale. Source: L. Drury 'Sir Arthur Hesilrige and the Weardale Chest' Transactions of the Architectural and Archaeological Society of Durham and Northumberland, New series V.15 pp 125-137.
Listing NGR: NY9154838410
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 404883
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Transactions of the Architectural and Archaeological Society of Durham and North in Number 15, (), 125-137
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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