Description

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SE0446
9/169

SILSDEN C.P.
NORTH STREET (north side)
Townhead Farmhouse

27.9.65

II

House. Mid-C17 with early C20 alterations. Thin coursed rubble, dressed quoins, stone slate roof. Two storeys. Two-cell, end baffle-entry plan with single-storey outshut to rear of second cell. Three first-floor windows. To left, six-light double-chamfered mullioned window has hoodmould with straight returns; two-light C20 flat-faced mullioned window has four-paned sashes; doorway to right-hand end has composite jambs with broad chamfered surround. First floor has two windows with chamfered surrounds and one other stack to right-hand ridge; one other stack to left extruded from gable with offsets in ashlar with cyma-moulded cornice. Rear has small chamfered window to rear of first cell.

Interior: westernmost room has fine Tudor-arched fireplace with carved spandrels and chamfered surround.

Listing NGR: SE0452846936

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26519088

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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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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  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)