High Crooked Well
HIGH CROOKED WELL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1231741
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- High Crooked Well
- Statutory Address:
- HIGH CROOKED WELL
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1231741
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- High Crooked Well
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGH CROOKED WELL
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:
- HIGH CROOKED WELL
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 90296 38894
Details
STANHOPE HIGH WESTGATE NY 93 NW 19/219 High Crooked Well
II
Farmhouse, now house. Early C18 with additions. Sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings; roofs stone-flagged and Welsh slate. 2-storey, 2-bay house, with 2-storey,2-bay byre and loft at left; and one-storey, 2-bay barn further left; one-storey, one-bay pent right extension. House has boarded door in square- headed chamfered stone surround at right; sash windows at left, late C19 on ground floor and 16-pane above; left cow-house has boarded door; sash windows above with glazing bars. Barn has full-height cart entrance, and loft opening at right. Right pent extension has doorway to right, small square window at left; pigeon holes with stone shelves in upper part. Wide square chimney at left of house. Interior: stone fire surround has projecting lintel on double- cyma-moulded corbels; panelled cupboards to right of fire; large beams. Older part to right of present building now demolished.
Listing NGR: NY9029638894
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 406887
- 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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