Bockenfield Farmhouse
BOCKENFIELD FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1371020
- Date first listed:
- 18-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Bockenfield Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- BOCKENFIELD FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1371020
- Date first listed:
- 18-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Bockenfield Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- BOCKENFIELD FARMHOUSE
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:
- BOCKENFIELD FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Thirston
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 17915 97828
Details
THIRSTON BOCKENFIELD NZ 19 NE Bockenfield 4/59 Farmhouse II* House, c.1660 by Robert Trollope for the Heron family, incorporating earlier fabric, C19 rear outshut. Front squared stone with dressings, returns large rubble; slate roof. 2 storeys on cellars, 4 bays. Chamfered plinth; end bays flanked by rusticated pilaster buttresses with pineapple finials just below eaves. Central flush-panelled double doors in moulded flat-pointed arch flanked by detached barley-sugar columns carrying pedimented entablature with Heron arms. Above this a blocked circular window in cable-moulded surround, surmounted by raised lozenge-shaped block. Blocked 2-light mullioned cellar windows now partly buried. Three-light transomed windows with raised cable- moulded surrounds to ground floor bay 2, bay 3 and 1st floor bay 4; varied glazing. Other windows altered; that to ground floor bay 4 has C17 fireplace re-used as surround. Coped gables; stepped and corniced end stacks. Returns show earlier walling and blocked square chamfered windows to 1st floor. Interior; dog-leg stair with closed string, column balusters and plain domed handrail. Blocked 2-light mullioned window to stair.
Listing NGR: NZ1791597828
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 238197
- 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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