Warden Hill Farmhouse East Part Warden Hill Farmhouse West Part And Byre Adjoining

STANHOPE A689 (North side) NY 93 NW Westgate 19/127 Warden Hill farmhouse east part; Warden Hill farmhouse west part and byre adjoining II

Farmhouse, now 2 houses, with byre and loft adjoining at left. C17 with alterations. Sandstone rubble with some quoins and ashlar dressings; stone- flagged roof; right house painted stone. 2 storeys; 4,3, and 4 bays.

Central house has glazed C20 door at left with irregular jambs under thin stone lintel; 2 renewed 3-light ground-floor casements under full-width dripstring made with throughstones; renewed light above at left and blocked light above at right have similar dripstrings and thin stone sills. Second house at right has C20 porch in second bay; renewed casements in plain stone surrounds; some drip strings. Roof has 3 low ridge chimneys. Byre has 2nd-bay boarded Dutch door; boarded door under similar lintel at right end; thin stone lintels and sills to windows in other bays, those on upper floor smaller.

Rear elevation shows some small single lights with chamfered stone surrounds, one blocked and one with vertical iron bar.

Historical note: the Weardale chest was kept here, the C18 muniment chest of the community of the Forest of Weardale. Source: L. Drury 'Sir Arthur Hesilrige and the Weardale Chest' Transactions of the Architectural and Archaeological Society of Durham and Northumberland, New series V.15 pp 125-137.

Listing NGR: NY9154838410