Flushiemere House and Level Entrance Circa 5 Metres to North
FLUSHIEMERE HOUSE AND LEVEL ENTRANCE CIRCA 5 METRES TO NORTH
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Overview
- 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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- Reference:
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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 1:
- FLUSHIEMERE HOUSE AND LEVEL ENTRANCE CIRCA 5 METRES TO NORTH
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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 111955
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
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.
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