Keys To The Past, Ref No D14280

The description that follows is the full English Heritage listing for this building

STANHOPE NEWHOUSE NY 8638 36/246 Reading Room and cottage adjoining to right GV II Reading Room and cottage attached. 1850, but cottage includes one bay of a bastle-type building of circa 1600. Reading Room and left part of cottage coursed squared stone with tooled dressings; right bay rubble with larger boulder plinth. Stone-flagged roof.

Reading Room 1 tall storey, 2 bays. Central ledged and boarded door; flanking 16-pane sashes. Left bay of cottage has similar door and C20 windows in original openings, all with tooled lintels and sills. Right bay has modern windows in new openings. Cottage has end chimneys, the left probably also serving Reading Room. In left-return of Reading Room a segment-arched wagon entrance, with alternating-block jambs, partly filled and C20 boarded doors inserted.

Historical note: built by Thomas Sopwith, agent of The Blackett lead mines, for the use of the miners.

Source: Fordyce History of Durham 1857 II p.674.

Listing NGR: NY8730338890

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The Past Perfect web site for an example of a medieval castle (Wark).

Reading Room & Cottage, Newhouse; Listed building (Newhouse)