Bullock Steads, house and farm buildings
Bullock Steads, house and farm buildings
HER Number
8984
District
Newcastle
Site Name
Bullock Steads, house and farm buildings
Place
Kenton Bankfoot
Map Sheet
NZ26NW
Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
Site Type: Broad
Agricultural Building
Site Type: Specific
Farm Building
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Description
House, cattle shed, shelter with loft above and hemmel. Late C18. English garden
wall bond brick with standstone rubble rear; hemmel and cattle shed sandstone
rubble with ashlar dressings. Roofs: pantiles to house and hemmel with tile
ridges; sandstone flags at eaves of house; Welsh slate roof to cattle shed;
asbestos to loft. House: 2 low storeys; 2 bays; boarded door at right under
wedge stone lintel; similar lintel and rendered flat sill to horizontal sliding
sash at left; smaller horizontal sliding sashes at eaves have no sills. Tumbled-
in brickwork in left return gable, brick coping in right; one truncated end brick
chimney left. Shelter and loft: 2 storeys, 7 bays; 7 elliptical-headed arches
central half-glazed hit-and-miss window above flanked by pitching doors under
cambered brick arches; ventilation slits in outer bays. Cattle shed; 1 storey,
3 wide bays; central boarded doors flanked by hit-and-miss windows with pecked
stone lintels and projecting sills. Hemmel: 1 storey, 3 bays; central Dutch
door; horizontal sliding sash at left and hit-and-miss window at right with pecked
stone lintels and projecting stone sills; similar door lintel. LISTED GRADE 2
wall bond brick with standstone rubble rear; hemmel and cattle shed sandstone
rubble with ashlar dressings. Roofs: pantiles to house and hemmel with tile
ridges; sandstone flags at eaves of house; Welsh slate roof to cattle shed;
asbestos to loft. House: 2 low storeys; 2 bays; boarded door at right under
wedge stone lintel; similar lintel and rendered flat sill to horizontal sliding
sash at left; smaller horizontal sliding sashes at eaves have no sills. Tumbled-
in brickwork in left return gable, brick coping in right; one truncated end brick
chimney left. Shelter and loft: 2 storeys, 7 bays; 7 elliptical-headed arches
central half-glazed hit-and-miss window above flanked by pitching doors under
cambered brick arches; ventilation slits in outer bays. Cattle shed; 1 storey,
3 wide bays; central boarded doors flanked by hit-and-miss windows with pecked
stone lintels and projecting sills. Hemmel: 1 storey, 3 bays; central Dutch
door; horizontal sliding sash at left and hit-and-miss window at right with pecked
stone lintels and projecting stone sills; similar door lintel. LISTED GRADE 2
Easting
420400
Northing
569250
Grid Reference
NZ420400569250
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 8/66