Description

BRANSDALE HODGE BECK
SE 69 NE
(east side)
3/23 Miller's House
GV II
House. Late C18; extended 1817 (on datestone); altered to link with mill,
porch and dairy added, in 1837 (on datestone); restored C20. For William
Strickland. Herringbone-tooled sandstone with pantile and slate roofs.
Originally 2-cell, direct-entry plan; irregular in plan following alteration
and extension. 2-storey, 2-window front with lower 2-storey, single-window
connecting bay at right angles to left. Entrance in porch to rear. All
windows are renewed 16-pane sashes in original openings, with stone sills.
Lintels to original house are diagonally tooled and wedge-shaped; lintels in
connecting bay are vertically tooled. Beneath ground-floor left window are
stone steps leading to a board cellar door with a tooled wedge lintel.
Coped gable ends to original house. Vestigial stacks to right end of both
roofs. Rear: gabled porch contains datestone inscribed:
Per me, E Strickland, B.A. Coll. Reg. Cantab.
Vicarium, Ingleby Greenhow, Cleveland,
1837
and including texts from Proverbs IV 7 in Hebrew and Thessalonians V, 16-17
in Greek. Door lintel to extension at rear inscribed:
W.S. A.D. 1817
REMEMBER THY
END.
Interior. Cellar: barrel-vauLted roof of herringbone-tooled stone. Ground
floor, original house: porch has small fireplace in plain surround. Room to
left has early C19 stone chimney-piece with reeded jambs, imposts and
moulded cornice shelf. Room in connecting bay: stone chimney-piece with a
segmental arch carved in low relief from a monolithic lintel on coved
imposts and plain jambs. A complete mid C19 range by Carter of
Kirkbymoorside survives. Room in extension: partly altered fireplace with
double cyma reversa shelf brackets. House unoccupied and under restoration
by The National Trust at time of resurvey.

Listing NGR: SE6206697923

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26602373

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Recommended Books

• 
  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
• 
  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)