Blackett House and Temperance Cottage
BLACKETT HOUSE AND TEMPERANCE COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1303470
- Date first listed:
- 22-Aug-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Blackett House and Temperance Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- BLACKETT HOUSE AND TEMPERANCE COTTAGE
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1303470
- Date first listed:
- 22-Aug-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Blackett House and Temperance Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- BLACKETT HOUSE AND TEMPERANCE COTTAGE
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:
- BLACKETT HOUSE AND TEMPERANCE COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Matfen
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 03058 71892
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 18/02/2015
NZ 07 SW
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MATFEN
Blackett House and Temperance Cottage
(Formerly listed as Temperance Hotel and Temperance Cottage)
GV
II
House and cottage. Formerly an inn and later a temperance hotel. Ashlar with
Welsh slate roof. House 2 storeys, 4 windows, with lower 1-bay cottage attached
to right. House has 2-bay section to left and slightly projecting cross-gabled
section to right. Panelled door with 5-pane overlight in stone porch with
Gothic bargeboards, in re-entrant angle. 16-pane sashes above and to left.
Projecting section has canted bay window with stone mullions and pent roof;
two 2-light windows above. In the gable a large painted crest of the Blackett
family.
Cottage has C20 door with triple keystone. 2-light window on ground floor and
gabled half-dormer above.
Gabled roof. Flat coping on left, ridged coping with kneelers elsewhere. End
stacks, plain on left, corniced on right.
Listing NGR: NZ0305871892
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 238660
- 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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