Old Park Farmhouse, With Cottage and Byre Attached

OLD PARK FARMHOUSE, WITH COTTAGE AND BYRE ATTACHED, A689

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1230494
Date first listed:
05-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:
Old Park Farmhouse, With Cottage and Byre Attached
Statutory Address:
OLD PARK FARMHOUSE, WITH COTTAGE AND BYRE ATTACHED, A689

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1230494
Date first listed:
05-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:
Old Park Farmhouse, With Cottage and Byre Attached
Statutory Address 1:
OLD PARK FARMHOUSE, WITH COTTAGE AND BYRE 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.

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
OLD PARK FARMHOUSE, WITH COTTAGE AND BYRE 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 92719 38223

Details

STANHOPE A689 (North side) NY 93 NW Westgate 19/132 Old Park Farmhouse, with cottage and byre attached GV II

Farmhouse, cottage and byre. Early C18 with alterations. Thin courses of squared sandstone with quoins and ashlar dressings; roofs of stone flags and Welsh slate. Linear plan. 2 storeys, 4 wide bays, and one-storey, one-bay left byre. 2-bay farmhouse at right has renewed central door in slightly- chamfered stone surround with alternate-block jambs; rough stone lintels and sills to top-hung C20 casements. Cottage at left has similar surround to right end 4-panel door on pin hinges, and similar treatment to 16-pane sash on ground floor at left, horizontal sliding sash above and 12-pane sashes with broad glazing bars at right. Roof has stone flags on cottage, Welsh slate on house, and tall square chimneys at right of each. Byre at left blank to front with Welsh slate on roof. Rear shows parallel range behind cottage.

Interior: cottage has wide fire cornice and heck post; winder stair at right of passage beside heck post. Cast iron kitchen range, by Little of Alston, in plain stone surround recessed under cornice.

Listing NGR: NY9271938223

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
404890
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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