Description

SUNDERLAND

NZ35SE CROW LANE, Middle Herrington
920-1/6/254 (North side)
10/11/78 Middle Herrington Farmhouse and
outbuilding attached to west
(Formerly Listed as:
HERRINGTON ROAD
(West side (off))
Middle Herrington Farmhouse
Outbuilding to west of Middle
Herrington Farmhouse)

GV II

Late C17 or early C18 house with mid-C18 set-back addition and
outhouse. C19 alterations. Coursed squared sandstone and
sandstone rubble with painted ashlar and brick dressings;
Welsh slate roofs with brick chimneys; concrete tiled roof on
outbuilding. Linear plan with farmhouse projecting at left;
rear cross wings to farmhouse.
EXTERIOR: main house 2 storeys, 3 windows: central half-glazed
door with plain lintel; thin stone lintel a few courses higher
probably originally to a window. Windows with late-C19 2-pane
upper and plain lower sashes have thin stone lintels and
projecting stone sills. Steeply-pitched roof with swept eaves
to front slope and late-C19 yellow brick ridge chimneys; rear
slope at less acute angle. Left return has one similar sash on
each floor. Second build set back at left has 2 storeys, 3
irregularly spaced windows; probably originally a one-storey
range raised in C19. Blocked door at right under C19 chamfered
lintel; above this a stone inscribed Sr Edward Smith 1749.
Similar lintels and projecting stone sills to late C19 sashes,
2 paired on ground floor. Roof has end ridge chimneys and
ridge continues to right behind roof of first build. Lower
2-storey left outbuilding, its junction with the latter range
obscured by patchy mortar, has varied openings, some blocked,
Yorkshire sliding sash at right and one above under eaves, and
one with C19 glazing. Gabled left return has triangular
arrangement of pigeon entrances with slate shelves and brick
dividers.
INTERIOR of house shows late C18/early C19 panelled doors
leading off central passage; outbuilding shows roof of two
collars to principals crossed at ridge; 2 levels of purlins
morticed into rafters.
A rare survival of an older farmhouse on the edge of a modern
city.

Listing NGR: NZ3561853178

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26569104

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)