The Gatehouse website record for Reading Room Bastle, Newhouse

In the civil parish of Newhouse. In the historic county of Durham; County Palatinate of (Modern Authority of Durham, 1974 county of County Durham).

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.

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is NY87303889

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This site's English Heritage (PastScape) Defra or Monument number is 1396189
This site's County Historic Environment Record (formerly Sites and Monuments Record) number is D14280 'grey' literature, such as watching brief reports, held by H.E.R.s is often poorly referenced and is unlikely to be recorded in this website.

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