50, 51 AND 52, NORTH GREEN

Three houses, dating from the early 18th century, are situated on North Green, Staindrop. They are constructed of coursed, roughly squared sandstone with quoins and ashlar dressings. The roofs are covered in dark grey asbestos tiles on the left-hand side of number 52, pantiles on number 51, and pantiles with stone eaves on the right-hand side of number 50. Stone and brick chimneys, along with stone gable coping, are also present.

The houses have two and three storeys, arranged in a continuous line of two, three, and two bays, for a total of seven bays. Number 52 features a renewed half-glazed door under a flat stone lintel. Number 51 has a wide first bay containing a boarded entry door in a slightly-chamfered surround with irregular block jambs, and a C20 door under a flat stone lintel. Number 50 has a four-panel door with a three-pane overlight in a stone surround with irregular block jambs. Windows are generally renewed, with late 19th-century sashes on the first floor of number 51 and small wide windows on the second floor of number 52; the central second-floor window is blocked. Number 50 has 16-pane ground-floor, 12-pane first-floor sashes, and 6-pane fixed lights above.

The roofs have swept eaves, with a corniced stone chimney at the left end of each house and a renewed corniced brick chimney at the right end. The left gable has cyma-moulded kneeler copings.

The interior of number 51 reveals a rear staircase with lower winders, a ladder to the top floor (partly within the roof space), some 18th-century 'H' hinges, and a roof featuring collared trusses that vanish into the wall; the front of the trusses may have been tenoned into the wall plate over the windows.