Ashes Farmhouse
ASHES FARMHOUSE, WEAR BANK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1233330
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Ashes Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- ASHES FARMHOUSE, WEAR BANK
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- Reference:
- IOE01/01291/28
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1233330
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Ashes Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- ASHES 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:
- ASHES 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 06799 36550
Details
WOLSINGHAM WEAR BANK NZ 03 NE (West side, off) Wolsingham 22/404 Ashes Farmhouse 31.1.67 GV II
Farmhouse. C17 with alterations and additions dated 1704 for RH on door lintel. Sandstone rubble walls, the right part with clay core, with ashlar dressings; roof of C20 tiles with rendered and yellow brick chimneys. 2 storeys; 3-bay main block with lower 2-bay right kitchen wing. Renewed door at centre of higher part; battened plank door at left of lower part, in stone surround with Tudor-arched lintel and eroded chamfer. Flat stone lintels and projecting stone sills to sashes with vertical glazing bars in higher part;`similar treatment to renewed ground-floor cross window and first-floor sash in lower part, with another first-floor sash without sill. Blocked windows of C17 proportions partly survive in outer bays of first floor in higher part. Steeply-pitched roof has shaped left return gable with massive rendered external chimney stack and brick chimneys. Right roof of lower pitch has tall tapered square rendered stack with string near top. Rear elevation shows one-storey 2-bay outshut behind third bay of house and first bay of wing, with stone- mullioned 2-light chamfered windows, the lower having vertical diagonal iron bars.
Interior: long draw-bar slot in right door surround; 3-panel door at opposite end of passage to outshut. Bolection-moulded stone chimney-piece in right room. Room to left-of passage has chimney beam with unsophisticated classical treatment of closely-spaced dentils supporting cornice over pulvinated frieze on fluted pilasters; stop-chamfered beam; joists underdrawn. Left roof reported to have 2-stdne arch, of flat Tudor shape, beneath present wall covering.
Listing NGR: NZ0679936550
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 408826
- 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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