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© Mr Bob Cottrell ARPS AFIAP DPAGB
IoE Number:
404928
Location:
THE STONE HOUSE, BACK LANE (north side)
STANHOPE, WEAR VALLEY, DURHAM
Photographer:
Mr Bob Cottrell ARPS AFIAP DPAGB
Date Photographed:
25 March 2002
Date listed:
31 January 1967
Date of last amendment:
31 January 1967
Grade
II
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STANHOPE BACK LANE (North side)
NY 9939
Stanhope
34/148 The Stone House
(Nos.7 & 8,
31.1.67 Stone Houses)
GV II
House and wing. Circa 1600. Thinly-rendered rubble sandstone and millstone
grit with large irregular quoins and ashlar dressings; stone-flagged roof with
stone gable copings. 2½ storeys, 4 bays and 2-storey, one-bay left wing.
Ledged and boarded door at right in Tudor-arched surround with wide, broach-
stopped chamfers; irregular-block jambs to door and to windows with wide-
chamfered stone mullions and surrounds. Ground floor has two 3-light windows
and one single; single lights above, irregularly-spaced and of varying sizes;
2 small windows at eaves have iron bars and rails.
Left extension has C20 door and late C19 sashes under flat stone lintels.
Ashlar-corniced left end chimney on main house; massive external stack on
extension. Roll-moulded right gable coping.
Rear 2-storey, one-bay catslide extension. Interior not inspected.