Description

SEATON DELAVAL A 190 NZ 3276 (North side) The Avenue 13/69 Lookout Farmhouse with attached outbuilding to west GV II House, C17 heightened and remodelled in mid-C18, rear wing heightened in late C19. Front squared stone with tooled dressings, returns and outbuildings rubble, rear wing partly snecked stone; blue slate roof. L plan. 2 storeys, 3 bays, symmetrical. Central flush-panelled door with 2-pane overlight in C19 raised stone surround with pilasters and cornice. 12-pane sash windows, the lower in inserted stone surrounds. Stepped and banded end stacks. Returns show stepped gables which have pedimented raised centre-piece showing blind lunette above band. Right return shows 2 small attic windows below band; to right is rear wing with one ground-floor 12-pane sash set in double-chamfered surround of C17 mullioned window.

Outbuilding to left of house shows coped left gable; boarded door and double doors, under timber lintels, at rear.

The stepped pedimented gables (c.f. also The Delaval Arms, Hartley) show the influence of Vanbrugh's style at Seaton Delaval Hall.

Listing NGR: NZ3272176810

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