Description

Hillside Farmhouse etc, Higher Street.
16/265
11/265

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Hillside Farmhouse etc, Higher Street.
16/265
11/265

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ST4517 MARTOCK CP HIGHER STREET (North side)
BOWER HINTON

16/265 Hillside Farmhouse
(previously listed as Hillside
House), and front boundary
railings
19.4.61

GV II

Semi-detached house. Circa 1800. Ham stone ashlar; Welsh slate roof to shallow pitch between coped gables with
kneelers; stone slab end chimney stacks. Two storeys, 3 bays. Plinth, rusticated work to ground floor, horizontal
joints only, band course, eaves cornice, plain pilasters returned with cornice around corners; 16-pane sash windows in
plain openings below, and above in architraves with hoods above and fielded panel aprons below; to lower bay 2 the
entrance doorway, 6-panelled in architrave with simple pediment hood on plain brackets. Interior not seen. Starting
from the south-west corner of house, and forming west and south boundaries, a low stone wall with wrot-iron railings
having arrow points to middle and upper rails, with arch-braced standards at about 2m centres having cast urn finials;
on south west corner the gates removed and replaced by railings, and relocated further east with wood posts; gates have
rails to match, with sweeps up at sides, and added cast-iron ornamentation, probably of early C19; the whole adding
considerably to the setting of the house, and to the streetscene on a prominent corner position.

Listing NGR: ST4549817873

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26520690

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]