Latitude: 54.6657 / 54°39'56"N
Longitude: -1.7073 / 1°42'26"W
OS Eastings: 418978
OS Northings: 530104
OS Grid: NZ189301
Mapcode National: GBR JGJH.58
Mapcode Global: WHC51.RZ6M
Plus Code: 9C6WM78V+73
Entry Name: Escomb Farmhouse
Listing Date: 20 September 1972
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1292121
English Heritage Legacy ID: 385736
ID on this website: 101292121
Location: Escomb, County Durham, DL14
County: County Durham
Electoral Ward/Division: West Auckland
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Traditional County: Durham
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): County Durham
Church of England Parish: Escomb
Church of England Diocese: Durham
Tagged with: Farmhouse
BISHOP AUCKLAND
NZ13SE SAXON GREEN, Escomb 634-1/1/131 (East side) 20/09/72 No.35 Escomb Farmhouse
GV II
Farmhouse and cottage. C17 and mid C18, probably incorporating earlier fabric. MATERIALS: rubble stone with ashlar dressings. Pantiled roofs, to house with stone slates at eaves, and rendered chimneys. PLAN: house 2 storeys, 2 windows with right extension and rear full-width offshut. Cottage attached at left 2 lower storeys, 2 windows. EXTERIOR: house has central 6-panel door and semicircular overlight in roughly rendered jambs and arch. 16-pane sashes in plain stone surrounds. Small blocked rectangular light on first floor to right of centre. Low pent set back right extension. Roof has stone gable copings, swept eaves, and end chimneys, the right with external stack. Cottage, possibly originally incorporating dairy. Central boarded door under flat stone lintel, wide window at right with projecting brick sill and glazing bars in 3 lights under shallow segmental arch of 2 rows of bricks. Similar sills to first-floor 2-light windows, mullion and transom at left and glazing bars at right, under eaves. Right return shows skew stones in rear offshut. INTERIOR shows rear early dogleg C19 stair parallel to rear wall in offshut, with central arch to short passage to first floor rooms. 6-panel doors. Ground-floor right room said to have older fire arch, now blocked and early C20 fire inserted.
Listing NGR: NZ1897830104
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