The Cottage And Adjoining Farm Buildings

The Cottage and adjoining farm buildings are located in Stanhope, dating back to around 1600, with the main house being remodeled in the 17th century and further alterations made in the early 19th century. The structure is built from sandstone and limestone rubble, featuring ashlar dressings and stone-flagged roofs, arranged in a linear plan.

The main house is two storeys high with two bays and an additional wider bay on the right. It has a ledged boarded and battened door set in a chamfered surround in the second bay, above which is a stone inscribed with "W B M S Anno Domini 1620." There is also a ledged boarded door in a plain surround in the right bay, and late 19th-century sash windows with flat stone lintels and projecting stone sills.

To the left, the older house has three low storeys and one wide bay, characterized by massive quoins. It features a two-panel door in a wide-chamfered surround with large irregular jambs, an inserted central door under a rough lintel, and a boarded opening to the left. There is a similar lintel above a boarded door on the first floor, with remnants of external steps. The upper floors have central boarded openings.

The two-storey, three-bay barn to the left contains a central blocked round arch with voussoirs, designed more for ponies than horses, flanked by Dutch doors under stone lintels. The outer windows are partly glazed and have similar lintels and projecting stone sills, along with two boarded pitching holes above. The roof features three square ridge chimneys, with the right chimney on a massive external stack. The rear of the building has a higher ground level, with a one-storey outshut to the three-bay house, partly covered by a catslide roof, and a bank entry leading to the first floor of the three-storey house.

Inside, the oldest part of the building has a one-metre-thick left wall, with a low blocked square-headed door and a fire in the floor above. The rear door opposite the entrance is blocked due to the raised ground level. The later house features wide-chamfered beams and moulded joists, along with a cast-iron range on the second floor.