New House

SK29NW 3/67 26/7/84

BRADFIELD MORTIMER ROAD (west side), Midhopestones New House

II

Small house. Mid to late C17, outshut to south-east early C19. Hammer-dressed gritstone rubble, roughly coursed. Stone slate roof. 2-room plan with contemporary partial outshut to north-east side and later partial outshut to south-west. Rough quoins. Original main elevation to south-west has a 2-light double-chamfered mullion window to each floor, the mullion absent on ground floor. To right the later outshut with 2-light slightly splayed and recessed mullion window in left return and doorway with dressed surround in right return. The outshut encloses the original front door which is oak boarded, ledged and harr-hung. Damaged shouldered and corniced ashlar stack. To rear partial outshut has single-chamfered light and doorway with gritstone lintel and monolithic jambs. A double-chamfered mullion window to first floor of main range. Another 3-light double-chamfered mullion to south-east gable, otherwise altered or inserted openings. Interior has remains of stud partition to contemporary outshut, studs set in a grooved stone sill, stone staircase within outhsut. Back to back stone fireplaces, one with ovolo corbels. The harr-hung front door is a rare domestice survival and is similar to that illustrated by C. F. Innocent in The Development of English Building Construction, 1916, p241.

Listing NGR: SK2376399428