Grey Croft Farmhouse With Outbuilding And Farmbuilding Attached

MIDDLETON IN TEESDALE AUKSIDE NY92NW 14/90 Grey Croft farmhouse with outbuilding and farmbuilding attached GV II Farmhouse and former cottage, now outbuilding, with byre and house, now byre and loft attached. Probably early C18 with 1833 alterations and rebuilding of byre (dated over byre door) for A. Todd.C18 part thinly-rendered coursed rubble with millstone grit quoins, boulder plinth and ashlar dressings; stone- flagged roof. C19 part coursed squared sandstone with tooled coarse sandstone dressings and graduated green slate roof. Longhouse plan. 2 storeys, 9 bays. 2-bay house has flat stone lintel over inserted door at left, and flat stone lintels and sills, some re-used early C18 from smaller windows, to late C19 sashes at right and 2 above. Former house at left, now outbuilding/workshop, has some quoins to renewed door at right; early C18 re-used flat stone lintel and sill to ground-floor 4-pane sash; renewed 12-pane sash above; eaves slightly lower than those of house; details obscured by vegetation.

5-bay byre at right has plain stone surround to boarded cross-passage door in first bay; Dutch doors in second and fourth in tooled surrounds with impost blocks; similar surround to third-bay, first-floor boarded loft door, partly renewed and part early C19 with carved initials. Flat stone lintels and slightly-projecting stone sills to 2 fixed lights between doors. 4 square ridge chimneys, at ends of range and at ends of house. Interior shows blocked byre door and house door in cross passage , the house entrance with re-used cruck collar as lintel; peg-holes visible and owner reports mortices now concealed. Bulge in passage suggests house oven concealed by wall. Source: Vera Chapman 'The Aukside Estate of Anthony Todd' in Transactions of the Architectural and Archaeological Society of Durham and Northumberland New Series Vol. III, pp 75-86.

Listing NGR: NY9425026689