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© Mr Bob Cottrell ARPS AFIAP DPAGB
IoE Number:
407379
Location:
READING ROOM AND COTTAGE ADJOINING TO RIGHT,
STANHOPE, WEAR VALLEY, DURHAM
Photographer:
Mr Bob Cottrell ARPS AFIAP DPAGB
Date Photographed:
20 July 2003
Date listed:
05 June 1987
Date of last amendment:
05 June 1987
Grade
II
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STANHOPE NEWHOUSE
NY 8638
36/246 Reading Room and
cottage adjoining
to right
GV II
Reading Room and cottage attached. 1850, but cottage includes one bay of a
bastle-type building of circa 1600. Reading Room and left part of cottage
coursed squared stone with tooled dressings; right bay rubble with larger
boulder plinth. Stone-flagged roof.
Reading Room 1 tall storey, 2 bays. Central ledged and boarded door; flanking
16-pane sashes. Left bay of cottage has similar door and C20 windows in
original openings, all with tooled lintels and sills. Right bay has modern
windows in new openings. Cottage has end chimneys, the left probably also
serving Reading Room. In left-return of Reading Room a segment-arched wagon
entrance, with alternating-block jambs, partly filled and C20 boarded doors
inserted.
Historical note: built by Thomas Sopwith, agent of The Blackett lead mines,
for the use of the miners.
Source: Fordyce History of Durham 1857 II p.674.