Norton View Farm and Thackray Barn

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SD 95 NE 4/6

HETTON Norton View Farm and Thackray Barn

(Formerly listed as Norton View Farmhouse and barn adjoining, MAIN STREET)

10.9.54

II Farmhouse and barn. Mid to late C17 with mid C18 and C20 alterations. Slobbered rubble brought to course, stone dressings, stone slate roof. Formerly lobby entry plan. Rear to street:

Two storeys, four bays. Central mid C18 gabled cross-wing contains right-hand entrance with moulded surround, plank door, moulded dripstone. Left-hand ground floor former cross window, moulded surround, lower half of both lights now blocked; four-pane casements and fixed lights. Two upper floor windows have moulded surrounds, sashes with glazing bars. Gable end ridge stack. To left is stable with chamfered surround to entrance and basket arch lintel. External steps to hayloft, chamfered surround. To right is blocked ground floor staircase window, and upper floor former two-light mullioned window with mullion now missing, C20 casement. Right-hand gable end ridge, and ridge stack to right of cross-wing at former left-hand gable, and to left of cross-wing.

Garden front in two builds: one former three-light and former four-light window per storey, each with only one mullion remaining. Right-hand ground floor chamfered fire window. Right-hand side is mid C18 extension entrance has moulded surround and keyed lintel, with cross windows per storey. Interior reputedly contains scarfed spine beams as evidence for former timber firehood.

Barn to right is late C17/early C18. Central wagon entrance has chamfered surround, segmental arch of nineteen voussoirs, plank doors. Right-hand entrance has chamfered surround.

Listing NGR: SD9613158736