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Latitude: 54.9955 / 54°59'43"N
Longitude: -2.5201 / 2°31'12"W
OS Eastings: 366820
OS Northings: 566894
OS Grid: NY668668
Mapcode National: GBR BBVP.61
Mapcode Global: WH90V.8P5Q
Plus Code: 9C6VXFWH+6W
Entry Name: Low Old Shield Farmhouse
Listing Date: 27 July 1987
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1303083
English Heritage Legacy ID: 240733
ID on this website: 101303083
Location: Northumberland, CA8
County: Northumberland
Civil Parish: Greenhead
Traditional County: Northumberland
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Northumberland
Church of England Parish: Haltwhistle Holy Cross
Church of England Diocese: Newcastle
Tagged with: Farmhouse
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
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