Morley Farmhouse and Cottage
MORLEY FARMHOUSE AND COTTAGE, MORLEY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1323197
- Date first listed:
- 24-May-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Morley Farmhouse and Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- MORLEY FARMHOUSE AND COTTAGE, MORLEY LANE
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- Date:
- 2004-08-06
- Reference:
- IOE01/12614/28
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1323197
- Date first listed:
- 24-May-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Morley Farmhouse and Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- MORLEY FARMHOUSE AND COTTAGE, MORLEY 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:
- MORLEY FARMHOUSE AND COTTAGE, MORLEY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Brancepeth
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 22092 39387
Details
BRANCEPETH MORLEY LANE NZ 23 NW (West side) 5/16 Morley Farmhouse 24/5/78 and Cottage GV II Farmhouse and cottage. Early C18 with early C19 cottage. Large squared and coursed sandstone rubble; ridged concrete roof tiles and brick chimney stacks. Central hearth-passage farmhouse with cottage on right return. 2 storeys. Wide 3-bay farmhouse with rubble plinth and roughly-squared quoins at left. Central replaced door and narrow overlight in surround with alternating jambs and rendered lintel. Altered window openings with flush lintels and projecting sills: late C20 casements flanking door; two 16-pane sashes and replaced casement above, set immediately under eaves. Eaves raised probably in early C19. 2-bay cottage has boarded door and replaced sashes. Continuous steeply- pitched roof with swept eaves and raised verges. Reverse-stepped gable at left. Square-plan, hand-made brick stacks at left end and centre. Rebuilt right end stack. Added single-storey outshut on rear.
Listing NGR: NZ2209239387
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 109897
- 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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