Byres and Loft South-east of High Shipley
BYRES AND LOFT SOUTH-EAST OF HIGH SHIPLEY, B 6278
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1338600
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Byres and Loft South-east of High Shipley
- Statutory Address:
- BYRES AND LOFT SOUTH-EAST OF HIGH SHIPLEY, B 6278
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1338600
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Byres and Loft South-east of High Shipley
- Statutory Address 1:
- BYRES AND LOFT SOUTH-EAST OF HIGH SHIPLEY, B 6278
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:
- BYRES AND LOFT SOUTH-EAST OF HIGH SHIPLEY, B 6278
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Marwood
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 01466 21600
Details
MARWOOD B 6278 NZ 02 SW (South side, off) 7/56 Byres and loft south-east of High Shipley House
GV II
House, now byres and loft. Late C17 with C18 and early C20 alterations. Sandstone rubble with corner boulder plinth, quoins and ashlar dressings; stone-flagged roof with stone gable copings. L-plan. 2 storeys, 4 bays with one-storey, one-bay left pent extension and one-storey, 2-bay rear wing. C17 chamfered irregular-block surround with recessed flat-Tudor-arched head to boarded door in second bay; J. LAMB S HIGH incised on right jamb. Similar door inserted in third bay; side stone steps to first-floor boarded door at right of third bay;first bay has blocked wide ground-floor window with wide thin lintel over inserted light, and 2 pitching doors above; recessed diamond- shaped stone panel over C17 door, square lights on each floor in fourth bay; wood lintels, most renewed. Boarded door in left extension. Roof has cyma- moulded kneelers and left end truncated square chimney. Rear elevation shows full-height recessed centre, with some quoins and 2 wood lintels, probably the inner wall of a demolished stair.
Interior shows ground floor altered, with stalls, pens and hay rack. First floor has 2 rooms, each with C17 stone fire surround in left wall: that at left corniced with moulded surround, that in centre wall with flat Tudor arch, and moulded surround partly obscured by plaster; and small blank rectangular recess in lintel. Roof has upper cruck trusses with tie beams, high collars, and saddles; 2 levels of trenched purlins, overlapping; renewed rafters and ridge piece; spurs on outer trusses; tie beams and intermediate attic floor beams all with stepped-concave-stopped chamfers and cut to receive floor joists, now removed. Some panelling at attic level continuing division formed by central wall. Blocked 2-light-windows in gable peaks. Rear wing shows single truss and principal rafters with swept eaves.
Listing NGR: NZ0146621600
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 111420
- 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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