Middle Herrington Farmhouse And Outbuildings Attached To West

SUNDERLAND

NZ35SE CROW LANE, Middle Herrington 920-1/6/254 (North side) 10/11/78 Middle Herrington Farmhouse and outbuilding attached to west (Formerly Listed as: HERRINGTON ROAD (West side (off)) Middle Herrington Farmhouse Outbuilding to west of Middle Herrington Farmhouse)

GV II

Late C17 or early C18 house with mid-C18 set-back addition and outhouse. C19 alterations. Coursed squared sandstone and sandstone rubble with painted ashlar and brick dressings; Welsh slate roofs with brick chimneys; concrete tiled roof on outbuilding. Linear plan with farmhouse projecting at left; rear cross wings to farmhouse. EXTERIOR: main house 2 storeys, 3 windows: central half-glazed door with plain lintel; thin stone lintel a few courses higher probably originally to a window. Windows with late-C19 2-pane upper and plain lower sashes have thin stone lintels and projecting stone sills. Steeply-pitched roof with swept eaves to front slope and late-C19 yellow brick ridge chimneys; rear slope at less acute angle. Left return has one similar sash on each floor. Second build set back at left has 2 storeys, 3 irregularly spaced windows; probably originally a one-storey range raised in C19. Blocked door at right under C19 chamfered lintel; above this a stone inscribed Sr Edward Smith 1749. Similar lintels and projecting stone sills to late C19 sashes, 2 paired on ground floor. Roof has end ridge chimneys and ridge continues to right behind roof of first build. Lower 2-storey left outbuilding, its junction with the latter range obscured by patchy mortar, has varied openings, some blocked, Yorkshire sliding sash at right and one above under eaves, and one with C19 glazing. Gabled left return has triangular arrangement of pigeon entrances with slate shelves and brick dividers. INTERIOR of house shows late C18/early C19 panelled doors leading off central passage; outbuilding shows roof of two collars to principals crossed at ridge; 2 levels of purlins morticed into rafters. A rare survival of an older farmhouse on the edge of a modern city.

Listing NGR: NZ3561853178