Description

SD 71 NW TURTON HIGH STREET
Chapeltown

7/122 Chapel House Farmhouse
-
- II

Farmhouse, probably 2 builds from early C17 or earlier, with
later addition and alteration; now house. Stone base, coursed
sandstone rubble walls with quoins (probably re-cladding of
original timber-framing), slate roofs with one chimney on the ridge
and another at rear left corner of wing. Two-bay range with central
baffle-entry, and projecting 2-bay crosswing on the left (roof ridges
not joined). Two storeys; front wall of 1st bay has been brought forward
flush with gable of wing and roof carried down over it, making a long
porch in the re-entrant: this has a doorway to the right with a
cambered lintel undercut as a shallow Tudor arch, and a square window
with a hoodmould; 2nd bay has one altered window each floor, the upper
with a hoodmould; gable of wing has quoins at both corners, one window
each floor (the upper very small), and 45° pitched roof (fragment of
moulded coping at rear); in other walls formerly mullioned windows have
been mostly altered, but a small firewindow remains at junction of 1st
and 2nd bays; rear has 2 doors, one with modern square porch. Interior:
substantial timber-framing, principally an almost intact original outer
wall to the 1st bay, with post, rails, braces to wallplate (which is
c.½ metre below present roof), and some studs with secondary rails,
wattle and daub infill remaining in some panels; similar timber-framed
partition wall to wing appears earlier, has similarly infilled panels,
the lower with exposed wattle; original baffle-entry now blocked, but
inglenook remains with moulded heckpost and triangular peephole in
boarded panel, small-chamfered bressummer (undercut at rear end), the
latter carrying chamfered beams set on edge. Roof of crosswing has
truss with collar, purlins resting on backs of principals.

Listing NGR: SD7339415615

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26534925

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Recommended Books

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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)