Description

STANHOPE A689 (North side)
NY 8738
Ireshopeburn
36/103 High House Chapel
and former
minister's house
GV II

Wesleyan Methodist Chapel and minister's house, now chapel and museum. 1760;
extended and raised 1871. Sandstone rubble with quoins, plinth and ashlar
dressings; Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings.

Chapel: 2 storeys, 3 windows; house set back at left: 2 lower storeys and 2
bays, the left curved, and one-storey, one-bay pent left porch. West front of
chapel has 4-panelled double door and shaped fanlight under wide 2-centred arch
on pilasters; similar surrounds to flanking narrower windows all under drip
moulds. Continuous drip mould to 3 first-floor windows in similar style with
sill string. Round-headed louvred opening in gable peak has 2-centred-arched
drip mould. North and south fronts have chamfered flat stone lintels and
projecting stone sills to 3 windows on each floor. All windows late C19 sashes.

House has boarded door in centre, in plain stone surround; 20-pane sashes;
truncated left chimney. Interior: painted plaster above boarded and panelled
dado; coved stippled-plaster ceiling. Slender, tapered cast iron columns, with
abaci, painted in marbling with stencilled decoration, support 3 sides of
continuous gallery with panelled balustrade on brackets; west gallery on wall
behind high pulpit, which has pierced stylised flower patterns in Gothic panels;
organ in west gallery. Communion rail on slender turned balusters; smaller
balusters to west of side aisles. 12-sided ceiling ventilators with fret
panels.

House has C19 kitchen range in front room, plain stone chimney-piece in rear
room which has window shutters. L-plan stair has pierced cast iron panels
supporting moulded handrail with Gothic newels.

Source: Clack and Pattinson Weardale Chapels Durham 1978.

Listing NGR: NY8726438544

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26523723

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Recommended Books

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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy