Orchard Vale And Orchard Vale Cottage

CORBRIDGE STAGSHAW ROAD NY 9864 (West side, off)

21/201 Orchard Vale and Orchard Vale Cottage 20.10.52 II M House, dated 17(3)1 with initials J K (John and Katherine Morpeth) on door surround, rear outshut c.1790; cottage perhaps earlier, altered.

House front squared stone with cut dressings and graduated Lakeland slate roof; kitchen wing coursed rubble with tooled dressings and C20 grey tile roof; cottage squared rubble with large roughly-squared quoins, Welsh slate roof and old brick stack.

South elevation: Main block 3 storeys, 5 bays, symmetrical. Rusticated quoins. 4 steps up to central double panelled doors in surround with panelled pilasters carrying frieze broken forward at ends and ashlar panel above; 12-pane sashes with 8-pane sashes above; on 2nd floor smaller 9-pane sashes alternate with small-paned casements, all in raised moulded surrounds with projecting sills. Old sundial above window on left of door. Coped gables with moulded kneelers; stepped, banded and corniced end stacks with panelled shafts. Kitchen wing to right; 2 storeys, 1 bay. 16-pane sash windows, coped right gable with moulded kneelers and stepped, banded and corniced end stack. Cottage to left, 2 storeys 3 bays, irregular; renewed door and ground floor glazing, 6-pane Yorkshire sashes above; raised reverse-stepped coping to left; ridge stack.

Rear elevation: main block outshut shows Roman altar with worn inscription built in beneath stair window.

Interior: Contemporary fittings include 2-panel doors, fireplaces, dentil cornice in drawing room and open-well cut-string stair with moulded newels (lower fluted), vase-on-urn balusters, ramped moulded handrail and curtail step.

Listing NGR: NY9866164596