Description

STANHOPE A689 (North side)
NY 93 NW
Westgate
19/127 Warden Hill
farmhouse east
part; Warden Hill
farmhouse west part
and byre adjoining
II

Farmhouse, now 2 houses, with byre and loft adjoining at left. C17 with
alterations. Sandstone rubble with some quoins and ashlar dressings; stone-
flagged roof; right house painted stone. 2 storeys; 4,3, and 4 bays.

Central house has glazed C20 door at left with irregular jambs under thin stone lintel;
2 renewed 3-light ground-floor casements under full-width dripstring made with
throughstones; renewed light above at left and blocked light above at right
have similar dripstrings and thin stone sills. Second house at right has C20
porch in second bay; renewed casements in plain stone surrounds; some drip
strings. Roof has 3 low ridge chimneys. Byre has 2nd-bay boarded Dutch door;
boarded door under similar lintel at right end; thin stone lintels and sills to
windows in other bays, those on upper floor smaller.

Rear elevation shows some small single lights with chamfered stone surrounds,
one blocked and one with vertical iron bar.

Historical note: the Weardale chest was kept here, the C18 muniment chest of
the community of the Forest of Weardale. Source: L. Drury 'Sir Arthur Hesilrige
and the Weardale Chest' Transactions of the Architectural and Archaeological
Society of Durham and Northumberland, New series V.15 pp 125-137.

Listing NGR: NY9154838410

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26524102

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Recommended Books

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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)