Description

SD 71 NW TURTON HIGH STREET Chapeltown

7/126 No. 97 27.1.1967 GV II

House, C18, altered, former rear additions once used as school now demolished. Watershot coursed sandstone with quoins, ashlar porch, stone slate roof with gable chimneys. Single pile 2-bay plan, with parts of former rear extension to 2nd bay remaining. Two storeys; almost symmetrical facade has slightly offset to the right a narrow slightly-projecting 2-storey porch of ashlar in Jacobean style: chamfered doorway with rectangular fanlignt and hoodmould, tall 2-light mullioned window with hoodmould at 1st floor, a carved crest in a panel above this, steeply-pitched gable with coping scrolled at the eaves, and large finial at the apex (this part, probably early C19, matches similar feature at Clough House Farmhouse, q.v.); 2 mullioned windows on each floor, all of 3 tall lights with glazing bars and hoodmoulds (probably contemporary with porch). Continuing to rear of right return wall is a long high wall, the 1st part of which breaks forward slightly and has an elaborate arched Gothick doorway with ogee hoodmould, and a panel containing the Chetham arms above this. Interior: central hallway (probably C19 alteration) with ¼-turn stairs at the back; stone fireplace in room on each side; at 1st floor, timber framed partition walls, batten and board doors, and blocked doorways in rear wall.

Listing NGR: SD7329515816

External Links

• Wikidata Q26534938

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