Priory Farmhouse
PRIORY FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1240627
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Priory Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- PRIORY FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1240627
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Priory Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- PRIORY FARMHOUSE
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:
- PRIORY FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Muggleswick
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 04385 50051
Details
NZ 05 SW MUGGLESWICK MUGGLESWICK 4/100 Priory Farmhouse GV II Farmhouse. Early and mid C18 with late C19/early C20 addition. Coursed squared sandstone with some large stones and ashlar dressings; render; roofs of Welsh slate and French tiles, with stone gable copings and ashlar, rendered and brick chimneys. L-plan. 3 builds: 2-storey, 2-bay first part, with left addition of 2 higher storeys and 3 bays, and one-storey, 3-bay right extension. Main house at left has partly-glazed central door in architrave; plain stone surrounds to sashes with vertical glazing bars in outer bays; wide moulded kneelers support gable copings; rendered, corniced end chimneys on ashlar plinths. Gabled rear left wing. First, central build has blocked door at left, with 4-pane light inserted under flat stone lintel; square late C19 sashes at right under flat stone lintels; steeply-pitched roof, with right gable higher, has right end chimney. Right extension has central late C19 sash and right end chimney. Interior: stop-chamfered beams in some ground-floor rooms; rear wing ground- floor room contains fielded panelling and corniced chimney piece.
Listing NGR: NZ0438550051
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 439107
- 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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