Low Dryburn Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 February 1970. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Low Dryburn Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- shifting-ashlar-mist
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 February 1970
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE NORTH END NZ 24 SE 4/280 Low Dryburn farmhouse (formerly listed 19.2.70 in North Road)
GV II
Farmhouse, now house. Early C18 with alterations. Rendered rubble sandstone and rubble; pantiled roof on extensions; main roof of French tiles; brick chimneys. 2 storeys, one bay with one-storey, one-bay extensions at each end and later one-storey front extension. Renewed door at left of central bays; extension projects at right; late C19 and renewed windows. Steeply-pitched roofs.
Interior: enclosed dog-leg stair has closed string, barley-sugar twist balusters and rounded handrail with side groove. Central roof has coupled principals and through purlins; re-used crucks in left extension. Ground floor ceiling beams; first floor has old planks.
Several small rear extensions not of interest.
Source: H.M. Roberts, 'Cruck-framed roofs in the City of Durham : preliminary notes on identified examples'. Transactions of Architectural and Archaeological Society of Durham and Northumberland, new series V, 91-96.
Listing NGR: NZ2650643400
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