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BRADFIELD
UPPER MIDHOPE
Well Bank House and Sycamore Cottage, and MIDHOPE LANE, 2 Well Bank Cottages

(formerly listed as Wellbank Farmhouse including No, 1 Wellbank Cottage and Sycamore Cottage, UPPER MIDHOPE)

25/4/69

GV
II
Farmhouse now three dwellings. C17 with C18 and C19 additions. Partly cruck-framed, deeply-coursed, squared gritstone, stone slate roofs. Irregular L-shaped plan, main range two storeys with extensions and rear outshuts and a short projection beyond the junction with the one and a half storey front wing to right.

Main range: two storeys, five windows to first floor. Plinth, quoins. Door to far right, in short projection beyond front wing, has quoined reveals and Tudor-arched lintel. Rest of elevation within farmyard has two C17 bays to right with two ground floor four-pane sashes inserted in double-chamfered surrounds, sills altered, shared hoodmould. Two smaller sashes to first floor in similar altered surrounds. To left: two C18 bays with square-faced mullion windows. Central blocked door, now window,has bonded ashlar surround, three-light window to left, similar window to right now with board door inserted in two left lights. Band.

First floor: two-llight window to left, similar opening to right now sashed, mullion removed. To left a C19 bay: altered doorway to right and casement to each floor. Altered ridge stacks and end stack to right. To rear of C17 part: unaltered double-chamfered mullion windows to both floors, ground floor hood moulds, wood casements. Front wing: in left return, left part breaking forward has, to right, a door with quoined reveals and Tudor-arched lintel. Various double-chamfered mullion windows to each side, some altered.

Interior of front wing: not available for inspection. Cruck-frame and central inglenook fireplace visible. Also said to contain stone staircase and panelling.

Listing NGR: SK2168599653

External Links

• Wikidata Q26487322

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)