Holywell Farmhouse, Byre and Carthouse
HOLYWELL FARMHOUSE, BYRE AND CARTHOUSE, UPPER TOWN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1276624
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Holywell Farmhouse, Byre and Carthouse
- Statutory Address:
- HOLYWELL FARMHOUSE, BYRE AND CARTHOUSE, UPPER TOWN
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1276624
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Holywell Farmhouse, Byre and Carthouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOLYWELL FARMHOUSE, BYRE AND CARTHOUSE, UPPER TOWN
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:
- HOLYWELL FARMHOUSE, BYRE AND CARTHOUSE, UPPER TOWN
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 07713 37871
Details
WOLSINGHAM UPPER TOWN NZ 0737 (West side, off) Wolsingham 39/396 Holywell farmhouse, 31.1.67 byre and carthouse GV II
Farmhouse, byre and carthouse. Late C17; alterations dated 1774 over door. Roughly-coursed sandstone with quoins and ashlar dressings. Roof C20 tiles and stone flags with stone gable copings and stone and brick chimneys. 2 storeys; farmhouse at left has 4 windows, byre at right has 3; one-storey, one-bay pent left extension and right cart-house. House with quoins at right keyed into byre, has door in plain stone surround in second bay; door lintel incised TM 1774. Similar surrounds to 6-pane sashes in horizontal windows, one above door. Byre at right has flat-Tudor-arched head to door in first bay; stop-chamfered jambs; chamfered square-headed surround to door at right; 3 small square boarded openings above have flat stone sills and lintels. Keyed segmental-headed surround to vehicle entrance with boarded doors in right extension under flat- stone-coped stepped parapet descending from left to right. House roof has end chimneys; copings rest on curved kneelers. Stone-flagged roof on left extension. Rear elevation shows stair tower with intersecting tracery in round-headed window; flanking outshuts; side steps to wide loft door under wood lintel.
Interior: wide segmental-arched chamfered chimney opening; dog-leg stair with ramped handrail on wide stick balusters; half landing; 2-panel doors with central bead and original H hinges; door from kitchen to main room has pegged moulded frame holding 8 panels.
On grass verge in front of house are stone steps of which the bottom one seems to be a re-used lintel incised T J M.
Listing NGR: NZ0771337871
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 408818
- 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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