Outbuilding South of Messenger House
OUTBUILDING SOUTH OF MESSENGER HOUSE, MESSENGER BANK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1240534
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Outbuilding South of Messenger House
- Statutory Address:
- OUTBUILDING SOUTH OF MESSENGER HOUSE, MESSENGER BANK
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- Date:
- 1999-08-21
- Reference:
- IOE01/00578/32
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1240534
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Outbuilding South of Messenger House
- Statutory Address 1:
- OUTBUILDING SOUTH OF MESSENGER HOUSE, MESSENGER 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:
- OUTBUILDING SOUTH OF MESSENGER HOUSE, MESSENGER BANK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 09128 52821
Details
NZ 05 SE CONSETT MESSENGER BANK (South side) Shotley Bridge 5/73 (inset) Outbuilding south of Messenger House GV II
Cart shed and loft. Early C19. Coursed sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and quoins; Welsh slate roof with stone gable coping. 3 storeys, one bay with ground sloping down to right. Boarded Dutch door at right under flat stone lintel;similar lintel and projecting stone sill to boarded window at left, the sill at ground level; similar lintels and sill to boarded first-floor loft door and smaller second-floor window with slatted lower part and upper glazing bars, now without glass and boarded on inside. Large sandstone blocks in double parabola around this opening probably formerly supported hoist. 2-storey rear on higher ground has double boarded vehicle doors in alternate-block jambs under flat stone lintel; stone shelf and blocked pigeon holes in gable peak over boarded loft opening. Included for group value.
Listing NGR: NZ0912852821
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 439000
- 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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