Ravensworth Park Farmhouse, Banesley Lane
Ravensworth Park Farmhouse, Banesley Lane
HER Number
8375
District
Gateshead
Site Name
Ravensworth Park Farmhouse, Banesley Lane
Place
Lamesley
Map Sheet
NZ25NW
Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
Site Type: Broad
Agricultural Building
Site Type: Specific
Farmhouse
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Description
Farmhouse. Early C18. Brick; stone plinth; Welsh slate roof with rendered coping to low gable parapet. Two storeys and attic. Four windows. Door in plain brick jambs in second bay; blocked door extreme right. Sash windows with glazing bars, some with soldier course brick sills and one with soldier course lintel under thin sandstone lintel. Attic casements; tumbled-in brickworth to gables, with roof line raised at rear to form catslide over earlier outshut. Interior: some early C18 architraves and doors; dog-leg stairs have balusters diminishing at two turns; splat balusters to lower flights, plank rails and curved handrail to top flight. Named as "High Stables" on Ordnance Survey first edition. LISTED GRADE 2
Easting
423560
Northing
558310
Grid Reference
NZ423560558310
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special architectural or Historic Interest, 11/59; Gateshead Council, 1999, Conservation Area Policy Guidelines, Strategies and Character Statements, Ravensworth Conservation Area, pp 61-63