BLACKETT HOUSE AND TEMPERANCE COTTAGE

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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

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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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: BLACKETT HOUSE AND TEMPERANCE COTTAGE

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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 14/177

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

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Legacy System number:: 238660
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.