Description

STAINDROP NORTH GREEN
NZ 1220
(North side)
17/151 Nos. 5 and 6
14/9/66

GV II

Inn, now 2 houses. Early/mid C18. Coursed squared sandstone with painted
ashlar dressings, plinth and quoins; roof of dark grey asbestos tiles with
stone gable coping. 2 storeys, 6 bays; No. 6 at left 2 bays, with door at
right under first window of No. 5 in third bay. Partly-glazed 6-panel door
of No. 6 and renewed door of No. 5 in doorcases of moulded jambs and lintels,
with corner patera, under panelled fascias and deep pediments; treatment of No.
6 has guttae under cornice breaking forward over pilasters; No. 5 has dentilled
pediment bed. First 2 bays have full-height bowed projections with tripartite
sashes with glazing bars; moulded lead copings. Other windows sashes with
glazing bars in plain reveals, with flat stone lintels and sills, inserted sash
between doors. Roof has left gable coping on moulded kneeler; banded stone
chimneys on plinths at left of each house. Left return of No. 6 shows flat
stone lintel to 4-panel door, the top panels held in place by wood buttons;
paired gables.

Rear stable wing to No. 5 shows high narrow arch over former stairs to servants'
rooms above.

Interior: No. 5 has wide dogleg stair with shallow risers; keyed moulded arch
to stairs on panelled pilasters; shallow grip handrail on turned balusters,
which diminish at turn below canted rail of lower flight,in same plane as upper
balustrade and string. Architrave to candle cupboard, without door, on lower
flight. Window shutters in most rooms.

Formerly the Queen's Head Inn.

Listing NGR: NZ1274920627

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26454140

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Recommended Books

• 
  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)