New Close Farmhouse With Stable, Byre and Lofts
NEW CLOSE FARMHOUSE WITH STABLE, BYRE AND LOFTS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1232289
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- New Close Farmhouse With Stable, Byre and Lofts
- Statutory Address:
- NEW CLOSE FARMHOUSE WITH STABLE, BYRE AND LOFTS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1232289
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- New Close Farmhouse With Stable, Byre and Lofts
- Statutory Address 1:
- NEW CLOSE FARMHOUSE WITH STABLE, BYRE AND LOFTS
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:
- NEW CLOSE FARMHOUSE WITH STABLE, BYRE AND LOFTS
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 90677 36558
Details
STANHOPE SWINHOPEBURN NY 93 NW NY 907365
19/280 New Close Farmhouse with stable, byre and lofts GV II Farmhouse, byre and lofts. Early C18 house; byre, with lofts over, late C18 and circa 1800. Sandstone rubble, roughly coursed and squared, with irregular plinth, ashlar dressings and quoins; stone-flagged roofs. 2 storeys, 2,2,3 bays; 7 bays in all. East elevation has 3-bay house at right with central 3- light stone-mullioned window. 2-light casement and 2-light horizontal sliding sash at eaves in first 2 bays; third bay blank. Stable and loft, adjoining to left has 2 bays. 2 higher storeys, with thin stone lintels over boarded door and empty window on ground floor, and boarded pitching door above. Later byre and loft at left has 2 storeys, 2 bays; plain stone surrounds to boarded door and loft door; thin wood lintel over boarded window at right; first-floor vent slits. House has large square right end chimney; left end building has low- pitched roof. Right return gable has painted stop-chamfered stone surround to boarded Dutch door. Large throughstone above; 2 courses of throughstones and 2 large throughstones below chimney. Right return gable of adjacent higher part has small square light in gable peak. Rear elevation shows one-storey extension under catslide roof.
Listing NGR: NY9067736558
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 407615
- 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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