Plane Tree Cottage and Walls Attached

PLANE TREE COTTAGE AND WALLS ATTACHED, THE GREEN

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1376657
Date first listed:
26-Nov-1987
List Entry Name:
Plane Tree Cottage and Walls Attached
Statutory Address:
PLANE TREE COTTAGE AND WALLS ATTACHED, THE GREEN
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1376657
Date first listed:
26-Nov-1987
List Entry Name:
Plane Tree Cottage and Walls Attached
Statutory Address 1:
PLANE TREE COTTAGE AND WALLS ATTACHED, THE GREEN

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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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:
PLANE TREE COTTAGE AND WALLS ATTACHED, THE GREEN

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

District:
County Durham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Hamsterley
National Grid Reference:
NZ 11548 31151

Details

HAMSTERLEY THE GREEN NYll3l (North side) 23/59 Plane Tree Cottage and walls attached GV II House. Circa 1840. Thin courses of squared sandstone with painted ashlar dressings; roof of graduated stone flags with stone gable coping. 2 storeys, 3 bays.

Central 4-panel door and margined overlight under flat stone lintel; wood- bracketed gabled hood has shaped bargeboards. Flat stone lintels and thin projecting sills to late C19 sashes in outer bays. Eaves stone gutter blocks. Roof has banded end chimneys. Left return has small window on ground floor towards front. Rear pent one-storey outshut.

Wall attached at left to full ground-floor height has wide stone coping and is ramped down to garden gate c, 5 metres in front of house; wall at lower height continues around garden.

Included for group value.

Listing NGR: NZ1154831151

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Legacy System number:
111860
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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