Low Barmston Farmhouse
LOW BARMSTON FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1299800
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Low Barmston Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- LOW BARMSTON FARMHOUSE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1299800
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Low Barmston Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOW BARMSTON FARMHOUSE
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 BARMSTON FARMHOUSE
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:
- NZ3365456782
Details
NZ35NW
2/79
WASHINGTON
LOW BARMSTON
Low Barmston Farmhouse
II
Large farmhouse. Circa 1840. Snecked rubble sandstone with plinth. Large quoins,
crow-stepped gable ends, some ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roofs with corniced
ashlar stacks. Irregular plan, baronial style. 2 storeys, 3 bays and set back
left bay. The 2 gabled right bays project, the central one farther; this is
half-octagonal on first floor, corbelled out above and sloped out below. Sash
windows with glazing bars in tooled stone surrounds. 4-panelled door in corniced
surround raised in centre to hold blank shields. First L-shaped wing runs forward
from left bay and is linked by yard wall to lean-to in inner return angle.
Small round-headed windows in one-storey part and in central gable end. 3-bay
garden front blank at first floor centre.
Listing NGR: NZ3365456782
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 303237
- 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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