Ushaw College Farm
Grade 2 Listed Building
The Home Farm at Ushaw was planned to form the centre of the farming operation for Ushaw College, which at its height encompassed over 600 acres of mixed arable and grazing land. Ushaw College was founded in 1808 as a Catholic seminary by refugees from the English Catholic seminary and school at Douai in France.
Home Farm was in continuous use by the college up until 1972 when the
buildings were let to a farm holding which ceased operating in 2002. The
main block and associated farm buildings have remained unused since
then, it is now 2014 so this building has been abandoned and left for at least 12 years to deteriorate into an eyesore for passers by, there is also a dwelling house to the right of the main farm building that is in a bad state of disrepair, which has suffered from acts of vandalism, as you can see from the photo of the dwelling below.
I took this photo this morning on a really foggy day 03/04/2014 as I live in close proximity at Bearpark only a few hundred yards from this site. and as you can see from the photo that this is an eyesore to passers by and has been for the last 12 years or so, surely English Heritage & College Management can come up with some ideas to bring these buildings back to their former glory, I think it would be a good idea for English Heritage to restore this site and open as a Visitor Centre, like Beamish Museum and other places of our local history, I for one would like to see these buildings put to good use. Instead of being Neglected, there are far too many Neglected Properties in and around County Durham.
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