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Escomb Farmhouse

A Grade II Listed Building in West Auckland, County Durham

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Coordinates

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

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Description



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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