Sandhoe High House
SANDHOE HIGH HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1302799
- Date first listed:
- 15-Apr-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Sandhoe High House
- Statutory Address:
- SANDHOE HIGH HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1302799
- Date first listed:
- 15-Apr-1969
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 24-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Sandhoe High House
- Statutory Address 1:
- SANDHOE HIGH HOUSE
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:
- SANDHOE HIGH HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Sandhoe
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 96934 66346
Details
SANDHOE SANDHOE VILLAGE NY 96 NE (North side)
5/314 Sandhoe High House 15.4.69 (previously listed as High House)
GV II
House. C17, remodelled and extended to east c.1740, bow and rear outshut later C18. Coursed roughly-squared stone with cut quoins and dressings; graduated Lakeland slate roofs. 2 storeys, 6 bays; 4th bay slightly projecting with full- height semicircular 3-window bow. 1st floor sill string to bow and bays to right. To left of bow, 2 steps up to altered 6-panel door in bolection-moulded surround, with flanking- and over-lights framed by re-set C18 dressings; broken scrolled pediment with central finial re-set above overlight. To right of bow a 6-panel door in C19 moulded surround. 12-pane sash windows with heavy glazing bars, except for 15-pane sashes on ground floor of bow (sills lowered in C19). All windows in architraves; 1st floor centre window in bow has pedimented hood on consoles. Traces of earlier windows in left bays. Roof hipped to right; coped left gable with moulded kneelers and rendered stack; stepped ridge stack with conjoined shafts and modillion cornice.
Left return shows 12-pane sash window in raised stone surround, and shortened 9-pane attic sash in stone surround; blocked central slits to lower floors. Outshut to left has 4-pane casements in architraves. Similar window on far left, in blocked chamfered door surround in narrow link to High House West (q.v.). Rear elevation shows projecting stair wing with 12-pane sash window in raised stone surround on left return.
Interior: Contemporary plaster cornices and fireplaces, with early C19 grates and ironwork, throughout. Fielded-panelled doors with old hinges. Panelled shutters. Open-well cut-string stair with stick balusters, moulded newels and ramped moulded handrail; contemporary servants' stair in adjacent outshut. Roof trusses with 2 collars, 2 levels of purlins and ridge. Steeply-pitched roofline of C17 house, probably thatched, visible on west side of central stack. Walls of C17 part 0.80 - 1.00 metre thick.
Listing NGR: NY9693466346
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 240073
- 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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