Great Isle Farmhouse
GREAT ISLE FARMHOUSE, FERRYHILL, DL17 0LQ
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1322844
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jan-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Great Isle Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- GREAT ISLE FARMHOUSE, FERRYHILL, DL17 0LQ
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1322844
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jan-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Great Isle Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- GREAT ISLE FARMHOUSE, FERRYHILL, DL17 0LQ
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:
- GREAT ISLE FARMHOUSE, FERRYHILL, DL17 0LQ
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bradbury and the Isle
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ3032226947
Details
NZ 32 NW,
6/3
BRADBURY AND THE ISLE,
GREAT ISLE,
Great Isle Farmhouse
9/1/68
GV
II
Substantial farmhouse. Mid C17 with major C19 alterations and additions.
Rendered and pebble-dashed masonry and brick. Welsh slate and concrete ridged-
tiled roofs and rebuilt brick chimneys. Main block with two lower additions to right.
2-storey, 3-bay main block with continuous, 2-storey, single-bay addition to right.
Left bay has fragment of late C15-early C16 chamfered plinth (a continuation of
the probable chapel range attached to left). Projecting, 2-storey gabled wing to
second bay. Four steps to C20 glazed door and overlight in third bay. Late C20
casements in C19 openings with flush wedge lintels and projecting sills. Roof and
gabled wing have shaped kneelers and C20 coped gables. Central ridge and end
chimneys.
2-storey, single-bay addition to right has similar fenestration. Lower 2-storey,
2-bay outbuilding, attached to far right, breaks forward and has large, roughly-
dressed alternate quoins and C20 fixed lights. C20 glazed conservatory, attached
to right return, is not of special interest. Farmhouse included for group value
with chapel range.
Listing NGR: NZ3032226947
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 112114
- 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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