Sunniside Farmhouse and Adjoining Farm Buildings
SUNNISIDE FARMHOUSE AND ADJOINING FARM BUILDINGS, A689
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1232625
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Sunniside Farmhouse and Adjoining Farm Buildings
- Statutory Address:
- SUNNISIDE FARMHOUSE AND ADJOINING FARM BUILDINGS, A689
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1232625
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Sunniside Farmhouse and Adjoining Farm Buildings
- Statutory Address 1:
- SUNNISIDE FARMHOUSE AND ADJOINING FARM BUILDINGS, 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.
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:
- SUNNISIDE FARMHOUSE AND ADJOINING FARM BUILDINGS, A689
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wolsingham
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 05387 35884
Details
WOLSINGHAM A689 NZ 03 NE NZ 053358 (South side, off) 22/326 Sunniside farmhouse and adjoining farm 26.11.85 buildings GV II
Farmhouse, with byres and lofts adjoining. Lintel dated 1766-for I.W. Roughly- coursed and squared sandstone with quoins; byres and lofts are rubble sandstone; stone-flagged roofs except for renewed roof on central lower bay. Linear plan.
House has 2 storeys, 2 wide bays and lower 2-storey one-bay part at right. Byres and lofts have 2 storeys, 2 wide bays. One-storey, one-bay pent left extension. 6 bays in all. Boarded vehicle doors in pent extension, with pigeon holes in peak. House has 2-panelled door at left of lower section in plain stone surround with inscribed lintel. Flat-fronted mullions, splayed on inside, to 3-light windows in first 2 bays and to window of 3 over 3 lights to right of door. Farmbuildings at right have 2 boarded doors with one small square window on ground floor; side stone steps, the right flight wider, rising from right to left, to boarded loft doors, all under stone lintels. Rear has stair window of 3 over 3 lights, of which 2 over 2 belong to the stair well; the third has vertical diagonally-set iron bars; projecting bow-shaped oven to left of this window; catslide roof over stair wing.
Interior: lower 2-storey section, possibly a hall with floor inserted, has side stone steps at rear. Main room to left of door has heck-post. Rear stair is close-string with splat balusters cut to imitate twists. Doors with 4 fielded panels to both rooms and cupboards.
Listing NGR: NZ0538735884
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 408000
- 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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