Colliery Farmhouse

NU 10 NE SHILBOTTLE COLLIERY FARM

9/221 Colliery Farmhouse

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House, c.1800 with later C19 outshut. Squared stone, except rubble outshut, with cut dressings; Welsh slate roof with rebuilt brick stacks. Near-square plan; former front door on left return enters stair hall, from which all rooms open. 2 storeys, 3 bays, symmetrical. Plinth. Central blind doorway. 12-pane sash windows, the lower renewed, with slightly-projecting sills. Tall steeply-pitched roof; stepped end stacks. Right return shows pent outshut with 3 small-paned windows and boarded door. Left return shows left-of-centre renewed door into added sun lounge, 12-pane sash window and arched stair window holding renewed 15-pane sash with intersecting head. Rear elevation as front except for one small inserted window on ground floor right.

Interior: 6-panel doors. Open-well stair with stick balusters, moulded newels and moulded ramped handrail.

One of a small but distinctive group of farmhouses on the Duke of Northumberland's estate; other examples at Alndyke (Alnwick parish), Greensfield Moor (Denwick detached parish) and Rennington North Farm (Rennington parish).

C20 sun lounge is not of special interest.

Listing NGR: NU1877809096