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© Mr Bob Cottrell ARPS AFIAP DPAGB
IoE Number:
385621
Location:
STABLES AND BARN TO EAST OF LODGE FARMHOUSE WITH WALLS ATTACHED, A 688 (west off)
BISHOP AUCKLAND, WEAR VALLEY, DURHAM
Photographer:
Mr Bob Cottrell ARPS AFIAP DPAGB
Date Photographed:
05 May 2006
Date listed:
06 May 1986
Date of last amendment:
23 May 1994
Grade
II
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BISHOP AUCKLAND
NZ23SW A 688
634-1/2/5 (West side (off))
06/05/86 Stables and barn to east of Lodge
Farmhouse with walls attached
(Formerly Listed as:
AUCKLAND CASTLE PARK
Lodge Farm barns with attached wall
and gate-piers)
GV II
Stables and barn with walls attached. 1779 with C20 barn roof.
Coursed rubble with ashlar quoins and dressings. Corrugated
asbestos roof with louvred ridge ventilators on barn; pantiled
roof on stable.
One-storey, one-bay gable to south; left return facing yard
has 2 storeys, 5:5 openings, the barn at left higher. South
elevation has flat stone lintel to central boarded opening;
voussoirs and recessed blocking to semicircular arch resting
on bed of gable pediment, gable edges reinforced with
triangular blocks. Steeply-pitched roof to stable range brings
ridge to same height as barn; barn has 3 raised gabled ridge
ventilators.
Left return to yard has barn at left with boarded door and
wedge stone lintel inserted in blocked full-height arched
opening, hinge pins still in place in block jambs. Slit vents
on ground floor and at centre right above, 2 louvred vents
flanking slit at right above.
Lower stable block to right has flat stone lintels to 2
boarded stable doors and thin wood lintel to third; flat stone
sills to stable lights.
INTERIOR shows opposed barn doors, deep splays to vent slits;
king post roof trusses with diagonal struts; side purlins and
vertical board ridge purlin.