Little Burdon Cottage

LITTLE BURDON COTTAGE, STOCKTON ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1320019
Date first listed:
27-Jan-1988
List Entry Name:
Little Burdon Cottage
Statutory Address:
LITTLE BURDON COTTAGE, STOCKTON ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1320019
Date first listed:
27-Jan-1988
List Entry Name:
Little Burdon Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
LITTLE BURDON COTTAGE, STOCKTON ROAD

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
LITTLE BURDON COTTAGE, STOCKTON ROAD

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

District:
Darlington (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Morton Palms
National Grid Reference:
NZ 32874 16391

Details

MORTON PALMS STOCKTON ROAD NZ 31 NW (South side)

5/3 Little Burdon Cottage

II

Former farmhouse now cottage. Late C17 with later additions and alterations. Hand-made brick (partly rendered and painted on front and right return); pantiled roofs; rear wing has roof of ridged concrete tiles; rebuilt brick chimney stacks. Hearth-passage plan main block with wings on left return and at right-angles on right rear.

2-storey main block; 4 ground-floor openings and 3 above. Decorative brickwork: dentilled band between storeys; 2 raised lozenges on first floor; cogged eaves. Doorway at left into hearth passage has basket-arched head, raised keystone and impost blocks; similar doorway on rear. Altered openings elsewhere: later doorway at right flanked by 6-pane sashes; 24-pane horizontal-sliding sash and two late C20 casements above. Renewed steeply-pitched roof set below line of original roof. Ridge and left end stacks flanking hearth passage; stepped external chimney projecting on right return.

Single-storey, 2-bay wing at left has altered door and window openings, stepped eaves bands and steeply-pitched roof.

Projecting 2-storey stair bay on rear of main block has a blocked 2-light wood- mullioned window. 2-storey, 4-bay rear wing of 2 builds has altered openings and a steeply-pitched roof.

Listing NGR: NZ3287416391

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
350471
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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