Shield Ash Farmhouse

Shield Ash Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse and byre, dated 1661 for T.P. over the door, located off the west side of the B6278 in Stanhope. The building features a longhouse plan and is constructed of coursed squared sandstone rubble with quoins and ashlar dressings, topped with a stone-flagged roof and stone gable copings. It stands two storeys high with two bays on the left and three on the right.

The two-bay house on the left has a gabled stone porch with a double-ovolo-moulded surround that is broach-stopped, featuring a flat Tudor-arched head and an inscribed lintel beneath a cavetto-moulded label mould. The entrance has a studded boarded door. To the left, there is a wide window under a stone lintel, with a three-light single-chamfered stone-mullioned window above it and a two-light horizontal sliding sash window over the door.

On the right side, the cow-house has two wide windows inserted under flat stone lintels. The left return gable displays three large through-stones below the left end chimney. At the rear, there is a one-storey, two-bay outshut with a catslide roof. The farmhouse was empty and derelict at the time of the survey, and the interior was not inspected.