FLUSHIEMERE HOUSE AND LEVEL ENTRANCE CIRCA 5 METRES TO NORTH

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1322793
Date first listed:: 26-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:: FLUSHIEMERE HOUSE AND LEVEL ENTRANCE CIRCA 5 METRES TO NORTH
Statutory Address:: FLUSHIEMERE HOUSE AND LEVEL ENTRANCE CIRCA 5 METRES TO NORTH

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1322793
Date first listed:: 26-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:: FLUSHIEMERE HOUSE AND LEVEL ENTRANCE CIRCA 5 METRES TO NORTH
Statutory Address 1:: FLUSHIEMERE HOUSE AND LEVEL ENTRANCE CIRCA 5 METRES TO NORTH

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:: FLUSHIEMERE HOUSE AND LEVEL ENTRANCE CIRCA 5 METRES TO NORTH

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

District:: County Durham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Newbiggin
National Grid Reference:: NY 90937 31054

Details

NEWBIGGIN FLUSHIEMERE BECK NY 93 SW (East bank) 7/153 Flushiemere House and level entrance 26.6.87 c.5 metres to north II Lead and barytes mine lodging shop. Probably mid C19 for London Lead Company. Coursed rubble with quoins and ashlar dressings; graduated stone-flagged roof with stone chimneys and square yellow pots. 2 storeys, 3 bays with pent left addition of one storey, one bay. Flat stone lintel over central boarded door. Similar lintels and projecting stone sills to flanking and first-floor square openings, some with 4 empty lights; that over door blocked. Roof has 3 ridge chimneys, with top strings, at ends and at right of second bay. Interior plastered, with central enclosed stair; cast iron kitchen range, in left ground-floor room, by Henry Down, Barnard Castle; chamfered stone lintel over fire in right room; partition walls in right bay form 2 small ground- floor rooms, one with stone shelf.

Mine drainage level entrance. Probably mid C19. Sandstone blocks form round-headed rough arch with voussoirs. Included for group value.

The London Lead Company was notable for providing lodging shops for its miners post 1818.

Source: A. Raistrick, Two centuries of Industrial Welfare.

Listing NGR: NY9093731054

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Legacy System number:: 111955
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Raistick, A, Two Centuries of Industrial Welfare, (1974)

Legal

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