Low Harperley Farmhouse
LOW HARPERLEY FARMHOUSE, A689
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1276972
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Low Harperley Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- LOW HARPERLEY FARMHOUSE, A689
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1276972
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Low Harperley Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOW HARPERLEY FARMHOUSE, A689
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:
- LOW HARPERLEY FARMHOUSE, A689
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 11967 34912
Details
WOLSINGHAM A689 NZ 13 SW (South side, off) 31/332 Low Harperley Farmhouse 31.1.67 GV II*
Originally known as Harperley Hall. Manor house, now farmhouse. C16 and C17, probably incorporating an earlier building; C18 alterations and additions. Sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and quoins; stone-flagged roof, partly renewed, with yellow brick chimneys, and red brick external stack on left return gable. H-plan. 2 storeys, 3 wide bays and one-storey, one-bay left extension; rear right extension behind barn on north. Boarded door in irregular- block jambs under elliptical stone lintel in left extension; blocked door at left of central bay. Outer bays project under catslide roofs. Left extension, blank except for door, has 3 irregular rows of throughstones. Stone-mullioned windows have varying numbers of lights with elliptical heads, chamfered reveals and label moulds; right wing has square-headed double-chamfered 2-light casements. Some blocked windows in central bay. Steeply-pitched roof has 4 ridge chimneys, the left an external stack with side arch on stone lower part with offsets. Door has date panel over door incised SC MDC 1765. Rear elevation shows date panel SC 1762 over north extension; arms of Cradock family over central bay. Interior: Left extension contains front passage to store room with fire hood and first-floor gallery. Left wing contains low-segmental-headed stone chimney arch and stop-chamfered beams and joists; oak-boarded screen. Screen passage has shouldered stone arch at rear to central bay; arch opens onto rounded corner, possibly former stair. Many mid-C18 panelled doors; cupboard of C17- style panelling in first-floor central room. Enclosed stair at rear of south wing and at front of right wing. Stone-flagged floors in storage room in left extension and in pantry in central bay.
Source: Conyers Surtees The History of the Parishes of Thornley and Tow Law together with the Lordship of Bradley. 1926, 21-27.
Listing NGR: NZ1196734912
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 408020
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Conyers Surtees, H, The History of the Parishes of Thornley and Tow Law together with the Lordship of Bradley, (1926), 21-27
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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