FARMBUILDINGS TO EAST OF MORTHAM TOWER AND ATTACHED WALLS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1310361
Date first listed:: 28-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:: FARMBUILDINGS TO EAST OF MORTHAM TOWER AND ATTACHED WALLS
Statutory Address:: FARMBUILDINGS TO EAST OF MORTHAM TOWER AND ATTACHED WALLS

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1310361
Date first listed:: 28-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:: FARMBUILDINGS TO EAST OF MORTHAM TOWER AND ATTACHED WALLS
Statutory Address 1:: FARMBUILDINGS TO EAST OF MORTHAM TOWER AND ATTACHED WALLS

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: FARMBUILDINGS TO EAST OF MORTHAM TOWER AND ATTACHED WALLS

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: County Durham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Rokeby
National Grid Reference:: NZ 08701 14173

Details

NZ 0814 ROKEBY MORTHAM

13/142 Farmbuildings to east of Mortham Tower and attached walls

GV II

Planned foldyard group of farmbuildings, probably late C18. Coursed rubble with cut quoins and tooled-and-margined dressings; graduated stone slate roofs. Ranges around yard open to east. Single-storey side ranges each have central elliptical arch flanked by 3-bay round arcades; all arches keyed, some blocked; also boarded doors and small windows. East ends show boarded double doors under timber lintels; hip-ended roofs. 2 elliptical arches and slit vents to rear of north range. West range has 2-storey barn in centre; central boarded door re-using lintel of 2-light mullioned window, 2 tiers of slit vents, pitching door to left. Single-storey flanking parts have boarded doors and blocked openings. Rear elevation of barn shows central elliptical arch,with white brick voussoirs,under boarded pitching door; and part-slatted loft window.

Walls, with flat slab coping and roughly-shaped monolith gate piers, on east of yard and forming enclosures within yard.

Listing NGR: NZ0870114173

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Legacy System number:: 111732
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.