Swam Farmhouse
SWAM FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1264117
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Swam Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- SWAM FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1264117
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Swam Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- SWAM 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:
- SWAM FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Stannington
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 21330 79108
Details
STANNINGTON STANNINGTON NZ 27 NW 8/130 Swan Farmhouse II House, mid C18 with early C19 extension and C20 porch. Squared tooled stone with ashlar dressings, porch rock-faced stone; Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys, 3 bays, symmetrical. Plinth, rusticated quoins. Central flat-roofed porch with slit window and 4-panel door with 2-pane overlight on right return. Original doorway, in architrave, within. Flanking 12-pane sash windows, and 16-pane sashes above, all with thick glazing bars, in architraves. Bold hollow-chamfered eaves cornice. Coped gables; stepped-and-corniced end stacks. Single-storey, 2-bay left extension with 12-pane sash windows. Coped left gable with stepped- and-banded stack. Left return, above extension, shows 6-pane Yorkshire sash to attic. Right return, with 12-pane sash windows, rebuilt c.1960.
Lower C18 wing to rear. Brick addition at rear of C19 extension is not of special interest.
Listing NGR: NZ2133079108
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 428611
- 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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