TAP HOUSING CIRCA 10 METRES WEST OF NUMBER 8

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1322766
Date first listed:: 26-Nov-1987
List Entry Name:: TAP HOUSING CIRCA 10 METRES WEST OF NUMBER 8
Statutory Address:: TAP HOUSING CIRCA 10 METRES WEST OF NUMBER 8

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1322766
Date first listed:: 26-Nov-1987
List Entry Name:: TAP HOUSING CIRCA 10 METRES WEST OF NUMBER 8
Statutory Address 1:: TAP HOUSING CIRCA 10 METRES WEST OF NUMBER 8

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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Location

Statutory Address:: TAP HOUSING CIRCA 10 METRES WEST OF NUMBER 8

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

District:: County Durham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Middleton in Teesdale
National Grid Reference:: NY 94921 25140

Details

MIDDLETON IN TEESDALE NEW TOWN NY 9425 24/121 Tap housing circa 10 metres west of No. 8 II Tap housing. Circa 1827 for London Lead Company. Sandstone ashlar. Stone kerbs in front of plain jambs supporting wider lintel, with pediment-shaped coping set-back slightly, the whole c.0.8 metre high. Stone slab at back of recess has tap set in top; wood backing above. Two iron bars from stone slab to kerb form bucket stand. An example of the care with which the Lead Company provided housing and facilities for its best workers, some thirty years before public water supply was provided by the local authority.

Source: W. Fordyce, History and Antiquities of County Palatine of Durham, 1897, vol. II, p.67. Included for historical interest.

Listing NGR: NY9492125140

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Fordyce, W, The History and Antiquities of the County Palatinate of Durham, (1857), 67

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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.