Reading Room And Cottage Adjoining To Right is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1987. Reading room, cottage.
Reading Room And Cottage Adjoining To Right
- WRENN ID
- burning-foundation-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1987
- Type
- Reading room, cottage
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
STANHOPE NEWHOUSE NY 8638 36/246 Reading Room and cottage adjoining to right GV II Reading Room and cottage attached. 1850, but cottage includes one bay of a bastle-type building of circa 1600. Reading Room and left part of cottage coursed squared stone with tooled dressings; right bay rubble with larger boulder plinth. Stone-flagged roof.
Reading Room 1 tall storey, 2 bays. Central ledged and boarded door; flanking 16-pane sashes. Left bay of cottage has similar door and C20 windows in original openings, all with tooled lintels and sills. Right bay has modern windows in new openings. Cottage has end chimneys, the left probably also serving Reading Room. In left-return of Reading Room a segment-arched wagon entrance, with alternating-block jambs, partly filled and C20 boarded doors inserted.
Historical note: built by Thomas Sopwith, agent of The Blackett lead mines, for the use of the miners.
Source: Fordyce History of Durham 1857 II p.674.
Listing NGR: NY8730338890
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