(Staindrop House Rest Home) And Wall With Gateway Attached

This is a house, now a private rest home, with an attached wall and gateway, likely dating from the early 18th century with alterations in the later 18th century. The front is lime-washed with painted ashlar dressings, while the right return and rear are of rubble construction with coursed squared sandstone in the rear wing. It has a Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings and ashlar chimneys. The wall attached to the right has ashlar dressings and coping.

The house is three and a half storeys, with five bays, and a left extension of one and two bays respectively. The wall is set back to the right, stopping at the height of the first-floor window heads. The windows in the three-storey part are grouped 2:2:1. A Tudor-arched door with six panels sits in a hollow-chamfered Tudor-arched surround within the fourth bay. Similar-style architraves frame the sash windows, with glazing bars; one window is within a blocked doorway, and another is in a canted bay with a higher central window and flat roof. The top windows are arranged 3 over 3 panes. The roof features moulded kneelers and banded end and central chimneys. The left extension has a boarded door and a keyed slatted opening, below a flat stone coping; the roof is not visible.

The attached wall to the right contains a high, elliptical vehicle arch with voussoirs.

The rear elevation displays a gabled two-storey central wing, featuring external steps leading to a first-floor French window within a flat Tudor-arched plain stone surround. Hollow-chamfered surrounds, similar to those on the front elevation, are present on the left and in the right three-storey wing. A single-storey pent addition abuts a gabled projection.

The interior includes a panelled room dating from the early 18th century in the gabled wing, and a staircase with a ramped grip handrail on turned balusters.