Middle Herrington Farmhouse and Outbuildings Attached to West
MIDDLE HERRINGTON FARMHOUSE AND OUTBUILDINGS ATTACHED TO WEST, CROW LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279922
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Middle Herrington Farmhouse and Outbuildings Attached to West
- Statutory Address:
- MIDDLE HERRINGTON FARMHOUSE AND OUTBUILDINGS ATTACHED TO WEST, CROW LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279922
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1978
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Middle Herrington Farmhouse and Outbuildings Attached to West
- Statutory Address 1:
- MIDDLE HERRINGTON FARMHOUSE AND OUTBUILDINGS ATTACHED TO WEST, CROW LANE
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:
- MIDDLE HERRINGTON FARMHOUSE AND OUTBUILDINGS ATTACHED TO WEST, CROW LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Sunderland (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 35618 53178
Details
SUNDERLAND
NZ35SE CROW LANE, Middle Herrington 920-1/6/254 (North side) 10/11/78 Middle Herrington Farmhouse and outbuilding attached to west (Formerly Listed as: HERRINGTON ROAD (West side (off)) Middle Herrington Farmhouse Outbuilding to west of Middle Herrington Farmhouse)
GV II
Late C17 or early C18 house with mid-C18 set-back addition and outhouse. C19 alterations. Coursed squared sandstone and sandstone rubble with painted ashlar and brick dressings; Welsh slate roofs with brick chimneys; concrete tiled roof on outbuilding. Linear plan with farmhouse projecting at left; rear cross wings to farmhouse. EXTERIOR: main house 2 storeys, 3 windows: central half-glazed door with plain lintel; thin stone lintel a few courses higher probably originally to a window. Windows with late-C19 2-pane upper and plain lower sashes have thin stone lintels and projecting stone sills. Steeply-pitched roof with swept eaves to front slope and late-C19 yellow brick ridge chimneys; rear slope at less acute angle. Left return has one similar sash on each floor. Second build set back at left has 2 storeys, 3 irregularly spaced windows; probably originally a one-storey range raised in C19. Blocked door at right under C19 chamfered lintel; above this a stone inscribed Sr Edward Smith 1749. Similar lintels and projecting stone sills to late C19 sashes, 2 paired on ground floor. Roof has end ridge chimneys and ridge continues to right behind roof of first build. Lower 2-storey left outbuilding, its junction with the latter range obscured by patchy mortar, has varied openings, some blocked, Yorkshire sliding sash at right and one above under eaves, and one with C19 glazing. Gabled left return has triangular arrangement of pigeon entrances with slate shelves and brick dividers. INTERIOR of house shows late C18/early C19 panelled doors leading off central passage; outbuilding shows roof of two collars to principals crossed at ridge; 2 levels of purlins morticed into rafters. A rare survival of an older farmhouse on the edge of a modern city.
Listing NGR: NZ3561853178
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391436
- 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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