Escomb Farmhouse
ESCOMB FARMHOUSE, 35, SAXON GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292121
- Date first listed:
- 20-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Escomb Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- ESCOMB FARMHOUSE, 35, SAXON GREEN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292121
- Date first listed:
- 20-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Escomb Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- ESCOMB FARMHOUSE, 35, SAXON GREEN
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:
- ESCOMB FARMHOUSE, 35, SAXON GREEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 18978 30104
Details
BISHOP AUCKLAND
NZ13SE SAXON GREEN, Escomb 634-1/1/131 (East side) 20/09/72 No.35 Escomb Farmhouse
GV II
Farmhouse and cottage. C17 and mid C18, probably incorporating earlier fabric. MATERIALS: rubble stone with ashlar dressings. Pantiled roofs, to house with stone slates at eaves, and rendered chimneys. PLAN: house 2 storeys, 2 windows with right extension and rear full-width offshut. Cottage attached at left 2 lower storeys, 2 windows. EXTERIOR: house has central 6-panel door and semicircular overlight in roughly rendered jambs and arch. 16-pane sashes in plain stone surrounds. Small blocked rectangular light on first floor to right of centre. Low pent set back right extension. Roof has stone gable copings, swept eaves, and end chimneys, the right with external stack. Cottage, possibly originally incorporating dairy. Central boarded door under flat stone lintel, wide window at right with projecting brick sill and glazing bars in 3 lights under shallow segmental arch of 2 rows of bricks. Similar sills to first-floor 2-light windows, mullion and transom at left and glazing bars at right, under eaves. Right return shows skew stones in rear offshut. INTERIOR shows rear early dogleg C19 stair parallel to rear wall in offshut, with central arch to short passage to first floor rooms. 6-panel doors. Ground-floor right room said to have older fire arch, now blocked and early C20 fire inserted.
Listing NGR: NZ1897830104
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 385736
- 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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