Description

SE14SW BINGLEY DRAKE HILL
SE109414 (west side)

2/62 Hill Top Farmhouse
and attached archway

II

House and attached archway. Mid C17. Hammer-dressed stone, dressed
quoins, stone slate roof. 2 storeys. 2-cell, double-depth direct
entry plan. All are double-chamfered mullioned windows. Ground floor
front has former 4-light and 5-light windows with hoodmoulds, mullions
removed and with lowered sills (modern glazing). Above, a 4-light and
a 5-light window. Doorway to right-hand end has composite jambs and
lintel with sunken recess (for date?) and chamfered surround. Coped
gable with kneelers to right. Central stack to ridge (rendered). Rear
has 3 mullioned windows all altered but formerly of 4 lights, 3 lights
and 3 lights. Steps lead to lst-floor doorway with tie-stone jambs,
possibly a taking-in door formerly connected with textile manufacture.
Stack to left-hand corner. Right-hand return wall has 3-light window
(blocked) and 2 of 2 lights above, all with hoodmoulds.

Attached to left-hand end of rear is semicircular-arched stone gateway
with composite jambs, much weathered but retaining Ionic capitals to
pilasters, moulded impost and ramped coping the apex surmounted by
ball finial. Inner rebate for gates.

Listing NGR: SE1092441490

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26495387

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