Listing Text

NZ 17 NE DINNINGTON NEW HORTON GRANGE

1/10 Nos 4 - 6 consecutive and farm
building attached to no. 4.

G.V. II

3 farm cottages and cart shed. 1858 for Sir Matthew White Ridley.
Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings and quoins. Welsh slate roof with
stone gable copings and roll-moulded stone-coloured ridge tiles. 2 storeys; each
house 3 bays. Central half-glazed doors with glazing bars flanked by wide sash
windows. Sashes also to first and third bays of each house, those in outer and
central 2 bays of block breaking eaves under half-gabled dormers with overhanging
hipped roofs. Eaves gutter corbels, banded ashlar chimneys. Cart shed has round
piers to 5 elliptical arches; projecting stone sills to 4 blocked-up lights above;
boarded pitching hole in return gable; stone gutter brackets.
Historical note; Kelly's directory for 1858 describes the house and farm buildings
of the model farm as the most complete and extensive in Northumberland.

Listing NGR: NZ1983775520