Description

STANHOPE BISHOPLEY
NZ 0236
Frosterley
40/155 Milne Farmhouse
and barn, with
wall and implement
shed attached
GV II

Farmhouse and hind's cottage, now one house, with barn attached and wall and
implement shed in front. C17 house; C18 remaining buildings. Sandstone rubble;
house thinly rendered and with irregular plinth; roofs of C20 tiles and stone
slates. 2-storey, 5-bay house; one-storey, one-bay barn; one-storey wall and
shed projecting at right. Chamfered square-headed stone surround to door in
third bay, and chamfered flat-Tudor-arched surround under relieving arch to door
at right-of fourth bay. Similar relieving arch over window to right of door.
Windows of varying sizes, mostly containing sashes of late C19 type, with wood
or stone lintels and some stone surrounds; blocked 2-light stone-mullioned
window in second bay on first floor. Low second floor, partly in roof space, has
3 small square windows at eaves. Stone surrounds to these and other windows
have shallow roll mouldings. 3 chimneys, those at ends on massive external
stacks; stone gable copings. Right barn, partly obscured by later buildings,
has small square first-floor opening and stone slated roof.

Wall projecting from right of house contains square-headed doorway and links to
storage shed with large quoins, pigeon holes and shelves in front gable, and
stone-slated roof.

Interior: beams in left ground-floor room have concave-stopped chamfers. Right
ground-floor room has chamfered segmental chimney arch over C19 kitchen range
with founder's name Ord & Maddison Makers Darlington.

Listing NGR: NZ0237836050

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26524787

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