Lodge Farmhouse
LODGE FARMHOUSE, A 688
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292912
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Lodge Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- LODGE FARMHOUSE, A 688
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292912
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1986
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 23-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Lodge Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- LODGE FARMHOUSE, A 688
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:
- LODGE FARMHOUSE, A 688
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 21795 31372
Details
BISHOP AUCKLAND
NZ23SW A 688 634-1/2/3 (West side (off)) 06/05/86 Lodge Farmhouse (Formerly Listed as: AUCKLAND CASTLE PARK Lodge Farm)
GV II
Farmhouse. Dated 1779. For John, Bishop of Durham. Incorporates earlier fabric. Extensive alteration in 1779 enveloped first build and extended to right, leaving earlier quoins visible only in rear wall. Later small left rear pent outshut. Coursed squared rubble with ashlar quoins and dressings, the quoins with herringbone tooling; roof of concrete tiles with rendered chimneys. Symmetrical front elevation, T plan. 2 storeys, 5 windows. Central 3 bays break forward under pediment which contains inscription in well-cut Roman capitals: JOHNDUNELM/ANNODOM/MDCCLXXIX. Apron to inscription panel. First-floor band interrupted by high central round-headed arch, with stepped voussoirs, filled with coarser darker stone and containing renewed door under flat stone lintel; oculus above with radiating glazing bars and painted ashlar surround. Sashes with C19 glazing bars, most with flat stone lintels. Tall, round-headed windows with springing and top keystones flank keyed arch with voussoirs, which rises through 2 storeys in central projection. Steeply-pitched hipped roof. INTERIOR has stick balusters to dogleg stair in central bay; some window shutters; C19 chimney pieces; transverse rear passage. The inscription refers to John Egerton, Bishop of Durham 1771-87. (Fair P: A Description of Bishop Auckland: Bishop Auckland: 1820-: 38-43).
Listing NGR: NZ2179531372
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 385619
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Fair, P, A Description of Bishop Auckland, (1820), 38-43
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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