Cockfield Hall and Farm Buildings and Walls Attached

COCKFIELD HALL AND FARM BUILDINGS AND WALLS ATTACHED, FRONT STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1338610
Date first listed:
23-Sept-1982
List Entry Name:
Cockfield Hall and Farm Buildings and Walls Attached
Statutory Address:
COCKFIELD HALL AND FARM BUILDINGS AND WALLS ATTACHED, FRONT STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1338610
Date first listed:
23-Sept-1982
List Entry Name:
Cockfield Hall and Farm Buildings and Walls Attached
Statutory Address 1:
COCKFIELD HALL AND FARM BUILDINGS AND WALLS ATTACHED, FRONT STREET

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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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
COCKFIELD HALL AND FARM BUILDINGS AND WALLS ATTACHED, FRONT STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
County Durham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Cockfield
National Grid Reference:
NZ 12954 24093

Details

COCKFIELD FRONT STREET NZ 12 SW (South side) 9/6 Cockfield Hall 23/9/82 and farm buildings and walls attached

GV II

Farmhouse and farm buildings. Early C18. Coursed rubble with quoins and coarse sandstone ashlar dressings; roofs mostly pantiled, with stone copings; front slope renewed; some corrugated asbestos. 3 ranges of farm buildings enclose yard behind house. Front range: 2-storey 5-bay house; farm building attached at left has 2 low storeys and 2 bays. House has central C20 door in moulded stone surround; architrave to window over door, and top of architrave only to windows in outer bays; C20 glazing below and late C19 sashes above, blocked windows in bays flanking door. Sundial above central window. Roof has end gable copings on moulded kneelers, and corniced ashlar end chimneys.

Farm building at-left has 2 small square first-floor hit-and-miss and glazed openings in plain stone surrounds; asbestos roof. One-storey, one-bay outbuilding breaks forward at left; probably earth-closet. House has slightly later full-width extension under catslide roof, interrupted by central gabled stair wing. Farm building to left has chamfered stone surrounds to doors on ground floor and to loft with external stone steps. High wall attached to right return of house has round arch with voussoirs and rebated surround; farm buildings completing the quadrangle are mostly one-storey, with round or elliptical arches with voussoirs to vehicle entrances and to loose-boxes; 2-storey, 3-bay part at left of rear range has plain stone surround to central door; loft opening above; vent slits at right; hipped roof. Vehicle entrance nearest to house on right return has had external arch removed and replaced with straight jambs.

Fold-yard wall parallel to rear of house attached to right range.

Listing NGR: NZ1295424093

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
111371
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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