Shoreston Cottage and Midcote With Linking Walls and Outhouse
SHORESTON COTTAGE AND MIDCOTE WITH LINKING WALLS AND OUTHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1234829
- Date first listed:
- 26-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Shoreston Cottage and Midcote With Linking Walls and Outhouse
- Statutory Address:
- SHORESTON COTTAGE AND MIDCOTE WITH LINKING WALLS AND OUTHOUSE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1234829
- Date first listed:
- 26-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Shoreston Cottage and Midcote With Linking Walls and Outhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHORESTON COTTAGE AND MIDCOTE WITH LINKING WALLS AND OUTHOUSE
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:
- SHORESTON COTTAGE AND MIDCOTE WITH LINKING WALLS AND OUTHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- North Sunderland
- National Grid Reference:
- NU 20367 32588
Details
NORTH SUNDERLAND SHORESTON NU 23 SW 9/190 Shoreston Cottage and Midcote with linking walls and outhouse GV II Two cottages linked by walls and outhouse. 1913 by Robert Mauchlen for Sir Stephen Runciman Bart. Random rubble, the front face finely dressed. Pantiled roof. Arts and Crafts style. Shoreston Cottage to left: 4 bays. Boarded and battened door in 3rd bay under stone hood and brackets. Left 3 bays single storey under catslide roof. Right bay 2 storeys. 16- and 24-pane casements. Roof, hipped on left has one hipped dormer on front and one on hip to left. 2 corniced ridge stacks. Midcote to right, 3 bays with similar door and windows. Gabled roof with central corniced ridge stack. 1st floor windows on gable ends. Between the cottages an outbuilding of toilets and coal houses with gable end forming part of screen wall linking the cottages. Wall is pierced by 2 round- headed arches with imposts and keystones. A small 4-pane window in the outbuilding gable is set in a round-headed recess with keystone. Forms part of picturesque group with neighbouring houses. Sir Stephen Runciman Bart. Before the Mast and After, Newcastle 1924.
Listing NGR: NU2036732588
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 410386
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Runciman, S, Before the Mast and After, (1924)
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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