Wiserley Hall Farmhouse
WISERLEY HALL FARMHOUSE, WEAR BANK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1233325
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Wiserley Hall Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- WISERLEY HALL FARMHOUSE, WEAR BANK
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- Date:
- 1999-09-13
- Reference:
- IOE01/01291/31
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1233325
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Wiserley Hall Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- WISERLEY HALL FARMHOUSE, WEAR BANK
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:
- WISERLEY HALL FARMHOUSE, WEAR BANK
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 08553 36242
Details
WOLSINGHAM WEAR BANK NZ 03 NE (North end, off) Wolsingham 22/398 (inset) Wiserley Hall 31.1.67 Farmhouse
GV II
Farmhouse. C17 with C18 alterations. Coursed rubble with boulder plinth and ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof with overlapping stone gable copings at-left; brick chimneys, some on rendered stacks. Cross-passage plan with rear stair wing. East elevation to garden 2 storeys, 5 bays. Half-glazed central door in square-headed surround which has moulded quirk-stopped chamfer. Label moulds over door, ground-floor windows and 3 right first-floor windows, all in single- chamfered surrounds. Fire window to left of door. Mullions removed from ground-floor windows, formerly of 2 or 3 lights and from first-floor right end window. Third and fourth first-floor windows have mullions and vertical iron bars of diagonal section. 2 left first-floor windows have late C19 and 16-pane sashes respectively.
Interior: round-headed doorway and plank door on left of-passage towards rear. Other doors mostly have 2 raised and fielded panels in very deep panelled reveals; pegged panelled and moulded cellar door. Chamfered beams and joists with run-out and stepped stops. Early C18 cupboard in left room has panelled doors along length of room under dresser with glazed doors having horizontal flat glazing bar in fret-cut scroll pattern; corner flat baluster supports shelf. Late C17/early C18 dog-leg close-string stair has ramped, moulded handrail on turned balusters (first flight balusters removed); very shallow risers; L-plan landing balustrade.
Adjacent right byre too much altered to be of interest.
Listing NGR: NZ0855336242
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 408820
- 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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