Miller'S House

SE 69 NW 3/23

BRANSDALE HODGE BECK (east side) Miller's House

GV II

House. Late C18; extended 1817 (on datestone); altered to link with mill, porch and dairy added, in 1837 (on datestone); restored C20. For William Strickland. Herringbone-tooled sandstone with pantile and slate roofs. Originally 2-cell, direct-entry plan; irregular in plan following alteration and extension. 2-storey, 2-window front with lower 2-storey, single-window connecting bay at right angles to left. Entrance in porch to rear. All windows are renewed 16-pane sashes in original openings, with stone sills. Lintels to original house are diagonally tooled and wedge-shaped; lintels in connecting bay are vertically tooled. Beneath ground-floor left window are stone steps leading to a board cellar door with a tooled wedge lintel. Coped gable ends to original house. Vestigial stacks to right end of both roofs. Rear: gabled porch contains datestone inscribed: Per me, E Strickland, B.A. Coll. Reg. Cantab. Vicarium, Ingleby Greenhow, Cleveland, 1837 and including texts from Proverbs IV 7 in Hebrew and Thessalonians V, 16-17 in Greek. Door lintel to extension at rear inscribed: W.S. A.D. 1817 REMEMBER THY END. Interior. Cellar: barrel-vauLted roof of herringbone-tooled stone. Ground floor, original house: porch has small fireplace in plain surround. Room to left has early C19 stone chimney-piece with reeded jambs, imposts and moulded cornice shelf. Room in connecting bay: stone chimney-piece with a segmental arch carved in low relief from a monolithic lintel on coved imposts and plain jambs. A complete mid C19 range by Carter of Kirkbymoorside survives. Room in extension: partly altered fireplace with double cyma reversa shelf brackets. House unoccupied and under restoration by The National Trust at time of resurvey.

Listing NGR: SE6206497922