Derwent Oak Farm

NZ 15 NW, 1/2,

CONSETT A 694 (North side), Hamsterley Mill, Derwent Oak Farm

(Formerly listed as: Hagg Farmhouse.)

(Previously listed as Hagg House)

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House. C17 with C18 alterations. Sandstone rubble with plinth, quoins and ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof with left yellow brick chimney and right ashlar chimney, and stone gable coping. Two storeys, four bays. Partly-glazed 6-panel door, in plain stone surround with moulded stone hood, in third bay. Chamfered 4-light window with renewed stone mullions on ground floor at left; stone-mullioned 3-light windows in third bay on both floors; other windows C20 in plain stone surrounds. End chimneys, both corniced, the right on plinth. Left return gable has two small chamfered lights on first floor, the left with iron bar, and one in gable at front; right return gable has ground-floor sash with fine glazing bars in plain stone surround at rear; and one chamfered window at rear of gable. Rear elevation shows full-width outshut with catslide roof and inserted dormers.

INTERIOR: stone-flagged floor; wide stone fireplace surround in left room has flat-Tudor-arched lintel below wide irregular wood relieving beam, notched at right. Dogleg closed-string stair has moulded panelled grip handrail on twist- and-urn balusters, panelled rectangular newels with moulded pendants, and string with abacus, acanthus and dentilled mouldings and pulvinated frieze, through all floors into roof. Roof has collared trusses with slightly bowed tie beams and two levels of purlins. Some 2- and 3-panelled C18 doors, and some 8-panel C17 doors with C20 fittings, perhaps introduced from elsewhere since this was part of the Hamsterley Hall estate (q.v.).

Listing NGR: NZ1365256359