Description

MIDDLETON IN TEESDALE MASTERMAN PLACE
NY 9425
(West side)
24/119 House and wall
adjacent to
Masterman Place
arch
GV II
Reading room, now house. 1854 for London Lead Company. Coursed squared
sandstone with painted tooled ashlar dressings; roof of graduated stone
flags. Rubble sandstone wall. House one storey, 3 bays, with pent right
extension. Central C20 glazed door in tooled stone surround under stone-
bracketed ridged hood. Flanking sashes with fine glazing bars have flat
stone lintels and projecting stone sills. Left return has 2 narrow sashes
in similar style.

Rubble wall at left rear links to arch (q.v.) and has round coping. Right
flat-coped extension to house, with C20 openings, not of special interest.

Sources: W. Fordyce, History and Antiquities of the County Palantine of
Durham - 1857, II p.66.

A. Raistrick, Two Centuries of Industrial Welfare, 1974.

Listing NGR: NY9496725286

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26414752

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