Sockburn Farmhouse
SOCKBURN FARMHOUSE, SOCKBURN LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1320072
- Date first listed:
- 20-Mar-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Sockburn Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- SOCKBURN FARMHOUSE, SOCKBURN LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1320072
- Date first listed:
- 20-Mar-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Sockburn Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- SOCKBURN FARMHOUSE, SOCKBURN LANE
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:
- SOCKBURN FARMHOUSE, SOCKBURN LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Darlington (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Neasham
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 34772 07234
Details
SOCKBURN SOCKBURN LANE NZ 3407 (West side, off)
19/40 Sockburn Farmhouse 20/3/67
GV II
Farmhouse. Mid C18 for Thomas Hutchinson; late C18-early C19 wings; left wing altered c.1965. Narrow brick in irregular English garden wall bond; mainly black-glazed pantiled roofs with old brick chimney stacks. Reversed U-plan: main block with wings set back at right-angles on returns.
2-storey, 5-bay main block. Central 6-panel door and patterned fanlight in round-arched stone surround with impost blocks. Replaced sashes, in original openings with projecting stone sills, under rubbed-brick segmental arches, the heads infilled with narrow brick. Steeply-pitched hipped roof has swept eaves and stone ridge tiles. Tall lateral stacks with top bands. Lower 2-storey, 2-bay wing at right: scattered sashes; steeply-pitched roof, hipped at right, with heightened lateral stack above right return. 2-storey, one-bay wing at left altered c.1965 with French window; roof hipped at left and lateral stack above left return. Each wing has a 2-bay return with replaced sashes. Rear: central round-arched 12-pane stair window flanked by 12-pane sashes. Imported 6-panel door in open-pedimented doorcase on rear of left wing. Interior altered in late C19.
Later additions on rear of right wing and late C20 wall linking left wing to dovecote (q.v.) are not of special interest.
Historical notes: the home of Thomas Hutchinson (died 1789) the celebrated breeder of shorthorn cattle. William Wordsworth met his future wife, Mary Hutchinson, at Sockburn farmhouse in May 1799.
(Mary Moorman, William Wordsworth Volume I The Early Years 1770-1803, 1957).
Listing NGR: NZ3477207234
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 350499
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Moorman, M, William Wordsworth The Early Years 1770 to 1803, (1957)
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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