Lambley Farmhouse and Adjacent Outbuildings

LAMBLEY FARMHOUSE AND ADJACENT OUTBUILDINGS

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1370626
Date first listed:
23-Aug-1985
List Entry Name:
Lambley Farmhouse and Adjacent Outbuildings
Statutory Address:
LAMBLEY FARMHOUSE AND ADJACENT OUTBUILDINGS

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1370626
Date first listed:
23-Aug-1985
List Entry Name:
Lambley Farmhouse and Adjacent Outbuildings
Statutory Address 1:
LAMBLEY FARMHOUSE AND ADJACENT OUTBUILDINGS

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
LAMBLEY FARMHOUSE AND ADJACENT OUTBUILDINGS

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

District:
Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Coanwood
National Grid Reference:
NY 67425 59411

Details

NY 65 NE COANWOOD LAMBLEY

6/124 Lambley Farmhouse and adjacent outbuildings

GV II

House C16 or early C17, perhaps incorporating medieval fabric, outshut added C18, facade remodelled late C18 or early C19, altered later Cl9 and C20; outbuildings late C16 or early C17,altered. Squared stone (re-used from the medieval priory), rubble dressings, slate roofs. 2 storeys, 5 bays, symmetrical. Central renewed door with latticed overlight, flanked by C20 margined sashes. 1st floor has 5 C20 sash windows in old openings. Coped gables, left end stack brick, right end stack stone. Lower outbuildings to right in two sections; first part 2 storeys, 2 irregular bays. C20 window with small C17 chamfered window to left. 1st floor 2 C20 sashes with small C17 window to left. Second part 2 storeys, 1 wide bay. central boarded door with truncated triangular head and heavy dressings, probably re-set. Above and to left boarded pitching door; below eaves a long line of pigeon holes with alighting band beneath. Left return shows re-used medieval voussoirs. Rear elevation: outbuilding to left has boarded door in C17 chamfered surround. Interior; internal west wall of eastern outbuilding has blocked ogee- headed niche and corbels above carrying fireplace, later cut through to form doorway. Interior of house has one C18 fireplace with chamfered surround.

The site of the medieval Lambley priory, a Benedictine nunnery, is thought to lie in the field south of the farm; sundry architectural fragments lie in the house garden or have been re-used in the house and farm buildings. The present house has walls over a metre thick which may be medieval. The two sections of outbuilding to the east represent later dwellings of bastle-house type, the second largely rebuilt.

Listing NGR: NY6742559411

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Legacy System number:
240243
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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