Description

BOLTON-BY-BOWLAND HOLDEN

SD 74 NE

7/39 Broxup House and Broxup
Cottage
(formerly listed as
Broxup Farmhouse)
16.ll.1954
- II

House, 'RBI 1687' on lintel. Watershot slobbered rubble with slate
roof. End-lobby-entry plan. 2 storeys. Windows have an inner
cyma moulding and outer chamfer, with a continuous drip course with
spiral stops over the ground floor. The ground floor windows are
mullioned, of 4 and 2 lights. On the 1st floor are 2 windows with 3
lower lights and 2 upper, the central lower light having a semi-circular
head. At the left, above the door, is a vesica-shaped one-light
window having a hood with decorative stops. The door has a chamfered
surround and a shaped lintel which includes spiral decoration.
Chimney on right-hand gable, and at the left, in line with the door.
At the rear is a later gabled wing. To its left is a 2-light mullioned
window with a cross window above. To its right on the 1st floor is a
one-light window with shaped lintel. Interior. The left-hand room
has a wide chamfered segmental-arched fireplace with bread oven, flanked
by chamfered doorways with segmental heads. The left-hand doorway
enters the entrance lobby. The 2 axial main beams are chamfered, as are
the common joists. A chamfered doorway with flat head enters the
former dairy at the right, at the front of the house. Broxup Cottage,
to the left, appears to be a late Cl9th conversion, probably of farm
buildings. It is of 2 bays, the windows having plain stone surrounds
and 6-pane sashes. The door, between bays, has a plain stone surround.
Chimney on left-hand gable. This gable has a blocked mullioned window
with hood on the 1st floor. At the rear is a 6-light mullioned window
with inner hollow chamfer, outer chamfer, king mullion, and hood. On the
1st floor is a 2-light mullioned window with inner ovolo moulding, outer
chamfer, and hood.

Listing NGR: SD7739449481

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26327690

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