Smithy, Byres and Dovecote, 12 Metres East of Hill House
SMITHY, BYRES AND DOVECOTE, 12 METRES EAST OF HILL HOUSE, COCK LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1323032
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Smithy, Byres and Dovecote, 12 Metres East of Hill House
- Statutory Address:
- SMITHY, BYRES AND DOVECOTE, 12 METRES EAST OF HILL HOUSE, COCK LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1323032
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Smithy, Byres and Dovecote, 12 Metres East of Hill House
- Statutory Address 1:
- SMITHY, BYRES AND DOVECOTE, 12 METRES EAST OF HILL HOUSE, COCK 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:
- SMITHY, BYRES AND DOVECOTE, 12 METRES EAST OF HILL HOUSE, COCK LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Headlam
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 18398 17909
Details
NZ 11 NE HEADLAM COCK LANE (North side, off)
6/6 smithy, byres and dovecote, 12 metres east of Hill House GV II
Range of outbuildings. Probably C18. Roughcast and painted sandstone rubble with dressed quoins; moderately-pitched pantiled roofs. Continuous L-shaped range: single-storey, 3-bay smithy; single-storey, single-bay byre; set-back, 2-storey dovecote; and, at right-angles to north, a single-storey, 3-bay byre. Smithy has central boarded door with fire-insurance mark and retains forge and bellows. Byre has Dutch door and steeper-pitched roof. Dovecote: ground floor has byre with Dutch door and external stone staircase to first-floor boarded door; first floor has blocked breather, alighting band with entry holes near eaves, low-pitched pyramidal roof above projecting eaves band, octagonal glover ofnwood with conical cap and weather vane; stone-lined interior with nesting boxes. Byre range attached to north of dovecote has Dutch doors.
Detached range of farmbuildings to east of dovecote not of special interest.
Listing NGR: NZ1839817909
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 111090
- 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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