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Latitude: 55.0567 / 55°3'24"N
Longitude: -2.204 / 2°12'14"W
OS Eastings: 387067
OS Northings: 573601
OS Grid: NY870736
Mapcode National: GBR F91Z.N3
Mapcode Global: WHB1Y.35R8
Plus Code: 9C7V3Q4W+MC
Entry Name: Garden Walls with Privy Wash House and Shed to East of the Rectory
Listing Date: 27 July 1987
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1157223
English Heritage Legacy ID: 240831
ID on this website: 101157223
Location: Simonburn, Northumberland, NE48
County: Northumberland
Civil Parish: Simonburn
Traditional County: Northumberland
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Northumberland
Church of England Parish: Simonburn
Church of England Diocese: Newcastle
Tagged with: Wall
SIMONBURN THE GREEN NY 8773 (West side, off) 19/147 Garden walls with privy, wash house and shed to east of The Rectory II
Garden walls with privy, wash house and shed. Mid-late C18 walls; early C19 buildings. Walls: squared sandstone; north and east walls have hand-made brick inner faces in irregular English garden wall bond. Squared stone buildings with Welsh slate roofs; lean-to shed has stone-flagged roof. Walls enclose a square-plan garden; privy near south-west corner; wash house at north-west corner; lean-to shed on centre of outer face of north wall.
Flat-coped walls. Tall c.35-metre long-double-skin north wall was formerly heated by flues linked to 3 tiers of small segmental-headed coal furnaces, now blocked but still visible on outer face; several battered abutments on outer face. 45-metre long east wall has ramped up north section with 2 stepped buttresses. Lower 40-metre long south wall has rounded south-west corner. Similar 30-metre long west wall has off-centre doorway with alternating jambs is ramped up at junction with wash house.
Small privy, built inside garden on rear of raised section of wall, has partly-glazed 6-panel door and wood seat with 3 openings. Single-storey, 3- bay wash house: east bay in garden has 16-pane sash and slate roof with end stack; other 2 bays are roofless. Single-storey, 2-bay lean-to shed on outer face of north wall has 2 segmental arches and a low pent roof.
Later lean-to additions at north-east corner, on outer face of east wall (i.e. to rear of Rectory Terrace) and short section of wall running from south-east corner to Rectory Terrace are not of special interest.
Listing NGR: NY8706773601
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