7, Front Street

This is a circa 1700 house located on the north side of Front Street, Staindrop. The main block is constructed of brick in various bonds, with an ashlar plinth, painted ashlar quoins and dressings. The left return features coursed squared rubble, and the rear wing is colourwashed render. The roofs are pantiled, featuring stone gable copings and ashlar chimneys on the main roof, and a stone ridge with a brick chimney on the rear wing.

The main block is three storeys high with four windows. It has late 19th-century sash windows in architraves, with the ground-floor window replacing a former door; the blocked surround of the original door remains in the plinth. Chamfered quoins are present, interrupted by floor bands. A gutter cornice runs along the top, and the parapet features four trompe l'oeil windows with end pilasters and a flat coping that aligns with the gable copings. Corniced end chimneys are visible.

The left return has a six-panel door within a pedimented architrave with a pulvinated frieze. There are sash windows with broad glazing bars to the left of the door and on each upper floor, the top floor window having six panes, all within plain stone surrounds.

The rear wing, projecting one bay to the left, is two storeys high with two windows. It has a tooled stone surround to a battened boarded door, a ground-floor 12-pane sash window, and a nearly-square 16-pane sash window on the first floor in an architrave. The window above the door on the rear wing is part of the adjoining property at number 5.