Emmerson Cottage, The Cottages and Muschamp House
Emmerson Cottage, The Cottages and Muschamp House, Westgate, Brotherlee
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1231307
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Emmerson Cottage, The Cottages and Muschamp House
- Statutory Address:
- Emmerson Cottage, The Cottages and Muschamp House, Westgate, Brotherlee
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/08580/27
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1231307
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1987
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 13-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Emmerson Cottage, The Cottages and Muschamp House
- Statutory Address 1:
- Emmerson Cottage, The Cottages and Muschamp House, Westgate, Brotherlee
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:
- Emmerson Cottage, The Cottages and Muschamp House, Westgate, Brotherlee
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 92434 37650
Details
NY 93 NW
19/164
STANHOPE
BROTHERLEE
Westgate
Emmerson Cottage, The Cottages and Muschamp House
(Formerly listed as Brotherlee Farmhouse and house adjoining)
II
Farmhouse and two cottages, now three houses. Early C18. Pebble dash render with painted ashlar dressings; irregular plinth; stone-flagged roofs. L-plan. Two storeys, four and three wide bays. Left part Emmerson Cottage has glazed door in surround of chamfered alternate blocks, stepped with diagonal joint at corners; plain stone surround to ground floor right window and four first-floor square windows. Two cottages, 'The Cottages', at right have paired renewed doors in tooled stone surrounds between second and third bays; tooled stone lintels to three windows on each floor. Steeply-pitched roof of left part has end chimneys; right part has ridge and right end chimneys, all square with top string. Rear one-storey, four bay pent extension to right part. Rear wing to left part now a separate house, Muschamp House.
Interior: left part has early C18 panelled wall in ground floor with cupboard at left under keyed round architrave; two-panel door at right in pedimented doorcase with carved finial.
Listing NGR: NY9243437650
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 406257
- 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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