SCARSIKE HEAD GUIDE POST ON NORTH SIDE OF ROAD JUNCTION ONE METRE WEST OF WALL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1232200
Date first listed:: 05-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:: SCARSIKE HEAD GUIDE POST ON NORTH SIDE OF ROAD JUNCTION ONE METRE WEST OF WALL
Statutory Address:: SCARSIKE HEAD GUIDE POST ON NORTH SIDE OF ROAD JUNCTION ONE METRE WEST OF WALL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1232200
Date first listed:: 05-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:: SCARSIKE HEAD GUIDE POST ON NORTH SIDE OF ROAD JUNCTION ONE METRE WEST OF WALL
Statutory Address 1:: SCARSIKE HEAD GUIDE POST ON NORTH SIDE OF ROAD JUNCTION ONE METRE WEST OF WALL

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: SCARSIKE HEAD GUIDE POST ON NORTH SIDE OF ROAD JUNCTION ONE METRE WEST OF WALL

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 91061 41323

Details

STANHOPE SCARSIKE HEAD NY 94 SW NY 911413 10/267 Scarsike Head Guide Post on north side of road junction, one metre west of wall II Guide post. Probably C18. Sandstone block about one metre high, 15 x 20 cm.; roughly squared. Well-shaped incised inscriptions on three faces: on west Wolf Cleugh/New House./and O.S. bench mark obliterating lower part. On south, Lintz/ Garth/l/Bay Bridge/5; on east illegible. In 1857 this inscription mentioned New House, Wear Head, Middlehope,Westgate, Chapel, Wolf Cleugh, Allenheads, Lintz Garth, Bay Bridge, Roke-hope (sic).

Source: W. Fordyce History and Antiquities of Co. Palatine of Durham 1857; I 669.

Listing NGR: NY9106141323

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Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Fordyce, W, The History and Antiquities of the County Palatinate of Durham, (1857), 669

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.