Description

TL 76 SE
5/1

BARROW
BARROW HILL
Wolfe Hall

14.7.55

II
House early C16, extended later C16. T-plan, lobby-entrance. 2 floors and
attics. Timber-framed, rendered, with long-jettied upper floor at rear and
jettied attic floor to cross-wing. Plaintiled roof, axial chimney with 3
attached elongated-hexagon flues. C20 casements. Single-storey C19 gabled
entrance porch with arched and hood-moulded boarded entrance door. Main range
has hall and parlour with chambers above. High quality timber framing; wind-
braced close-studded walling, part of plank and muntin cross-passage screen,'
wind-braced clasped-purlin roof, windows with roll-moulded mullions exposed
internally. Large open fire places with cambered lintels on re-used medieval
roll-moulded limestone jambs in hall and parlour. Service end cross-wing
c.1580; windows have ovolo-moulded mullions exposed internally; 3-centred
arched doorways on 1st and attic floors.

Listing NGR: TL7711962206

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26282810

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Recommended Books

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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)