East Biggins Farmhouse and Barns Attached

EAST BIGGINS FARMHOUSE AND BARNS ATTACHED, A689

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1232680
Date first listed:
05-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:
East Biggins Farmhouse and Barns Attached
Statutory Address:
EAST BIGGINS FARMHOUSE AND BARNS ATTACHED, A689

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1232680
Date first listed:
05-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:
East Biggins Farmhouse and Barns Attached
Statutory Address 1:
EAST BIGGINS FARMHOUSE AND BARNS ATTACHED, 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
EAST BIGGINS FARMHOUSE AND BARNS ATTACHED, 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 04341 35707

Details

WOLSINGHAM A689 NZ 03 NW (South side, off) 21/325 East Biggins Farmhouse and barns attached II

Farmhouse and barns with byre. Early/mid C18 with late C18 alterations. Sandstone rubble with quoins and ashlar dressings; roofs stone-flagged with some corrugated asbestos; rendered chimneys. L-plan. 2-storey, 3-bay house with 2-bay barn adjoining; barn breaking forward at right 2 storeys, 4 bays. House has central door in early C18 stone surround, now blocked and with window inserted; flat stone lintels to 12-pane sashes, that over door narrower; end chimneys with offsets. Barn adjoining has Dutch door on ground floor and long flight of stone steps to first-floor loft door, under thin stone lintels; vent slit at first floor right. Projecting barn has boarded Dutch door in third bay; first and third bays small fixed lights; 3 rows of pigeon holes at left and 2 at right with stone shelves; small triangular stone vent in right return gable over blocked vehicle entrance with wood lintel.

Listing NGR: NZ0434135707

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
407999
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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