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

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26534938

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Recommended Books

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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability