Low Old Shield Farmhouse Greenhead, England
Listed Building Data
Low Old Shield Farmhouse has been designated a Grade II listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1303083
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II
- Date Listed
- 27 July 1987
- Name
- LOW OLD SHIELD FARMHOUSE
- Location
- LOW OLD SHIELD FARMHOUSE
- Parish
- Greenhead
- District
- Northumberland
- Grid Reference
- NY 66820 66894
- Easting
- 366820.0000
- Northing
- 566894.0000
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
GREENHEAD LOW OLD SHIELD NY 66 NE 11/85 Low Old Shield Farmhouse II
Bastle house now a farmhouse. Late C16-early C17 with c.1700 openings on front; C19 outshut on rear. Coursed rubble; Welsh slate roof; stone and brick chimneys. Original entry in left gable end. 2 storeys, 2 bays. Huge boulder plinth on front and returns. Late C19 gabled stone porch with replaced door to left of centre. Moulded Tudor-arched doorway with run-out stops on front wall inside porch. 6-pane sash in C19 openings at ground-floor right. Replaced casements elsewhere in fragmentary double-chamfered surrounds. Window on first-floor right retains a chamfered stone mullion; possibly re-used Roman wall masonry to right of this window. Roof has coped right gable. Left end stone stack with top ledge; rebuilt brick right end stack. Blocked original doorway with alternating jambs on gabled left return. Single-storey added rear outshut with pent roof. Interior: 1.25-metre thick walls; both ground-floor rooms have adzed ceiling beams of heavy scantling; chimney flue inserted in front of original gable-end entry. Farmbuilding on right return is not of special interest.
Listing NGR: NY6682066894
