Milne Farmhouse And Barn, With Wall And Implement Shed Attached

STANHOPE BISHOPLEY NZ 0236 Frosterley 40/155 Milne Farmhouse and barn, with wall and implement shed attached GV II

Farmhouse and hind's cottage, now one house, with barn attached and wall and implement shed in front. C17 house; C18 remaining buildings. Sandstone rubble; house thinly rendered and with irregular plinth; roofs of C20 tiles and stone slates. 2-storey, 5-bay house; one-storey, one-bay barn; one-storey wall and shed projecting at right. Chamfered square-headed stone surround to door in third bay, and chamfered flat-Tudor-arched surround under relieving arch to door at right-of fourth bay. Similar relieving arch over window to right of door. Windows of varying sizes, mostly containing sashes of late C19 type, with wood or stone lintels and some stone surrounds; blocked 2-light stone-mullioned window in second bay on first floor. Low second floor, partly in roof space, has 3 small square windows at eaves. Stone surrounds to these and other windows have shallow roll mouldings. 3 chimneys, those at ends on massive external stacks; stone gable copings. Right barn, partly obscured by later buildings, has small square first-floor opening and stone slated roof.

Wall projecting from right of house contains square-headed doorway and links to storage shed with large quoins, pigeon holes and shelves in front gable, and stone-slated roof.

Interior: beams in left ground-floor room have concave-stopped chamfers. Right ground-floor room has chamfered segmental chimney arch over C19 kitchen range with founder's name Ord & Maddison Makers Darlington.

Listing NGR: NZ0237836050