Description

CORBRIDGE STAGSHAW ROAD
NY 9864 (West side, off)

21/201 Orchard Vale and
Orchard Vale Cottage
20.10.52
II
M
House, dated 17(3)1 with initials J K (John and Katherine Morpeth) on door
surround, rear outshut c.1790; cottage perhaps earlier, altered.

House front squared stone with cut dressings and graduated Lakeland slate roof;
kitchen wing coursed rubble with tooled dressings and C20 grey tile roof; cottage
squared rubble with large roughly-squared quoins, Welsh slate roof and old brick
stack.

South elevation: Main block 3 storeys, 5 bays, symmetrical. Rusticated quoins.
4 steps up to central double panelled doors in surround with panelled pilasters
carrying frieze broken forward at ends and ashlar panel above; 12-pane sashes
with 8-pane sashes above; on 2nd floor smaller 9-pane sashes alternate with
small-paned casements, all in raised moulded surrounds with projecting sills.
Old sundial above window on left of door. Coped gables with moulded kneelers;
stepped, banded and corniced end stacks with panelled shafts. Kitchen wing to
right; 2 storeys, 1 bay. 16-pane sash windows, coped right gable with moulded
kneelers and stepped, banded and corniced end stack. Cottage to left, 2 storeys
3 bays, irregular; renewed door and ground floor glazing, 6-pane Yorkshire sashes
above; raised reverse-stepped coping to left; ridge stack.

Rear elevation: main block outshut shows Roman altar with worn inscription built
in beneath stair window.

Interior: Contemporary fittings include 2-panel doors, fireplaces, dentil
cornice in drawing room and open-well cut-string stair with moulded newels
(lower fluted), vase-on-urn balusters, ramped moulded handrail and curtail step.

Listing NGR: NY9866164596

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26296818

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Recommended Books

• 
  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
• 
  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
• 
  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
• 
  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
• 
  Old House Care and Repair