Reading Room Bastle, Newhouse
Gatehouse Classification - Bastle
Has been described as a Possible Peel-house
There are masonry ruins/remnants remains
| Name | Reading Room Bastle, Newhouse |
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| Medieval County | County Palatinate of Durham |
| Historic Country | Durham |
| Modern Authority | Durham |
| 1974 Authority | County Durham |
| Civil Parish | Newhouse |
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. (Listed Building Report)
This site is a scheduled monument protected by law
This is a Grade 2 listed building protected by law
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County Historic Environment Record
| OS Map Grid Reference | NY87303889 |
| Latitude | 54.74481 |
| Longitude | -2.19874 |
| Eastings | 387303 |
| Northings | 538890 |
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| Orientation | 112 |
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