Description

SD 71 NW TURTON (off) BLACKBURN ROAD
Edgworth

7/91 Hill Top Farmhouse
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- II

Farmhouse, dated 1721, with later extension, now house. Coursed
sandstone with quoins, slate roof with gable chimneys. Two-bay
baffle entry plan with long loomshop extension to rear (and modern
lean-to at left side). Two storeys. At left hand side a modern
gabled porch covers the original doorway (now altered as window)
which has a moulded panel in the lintel inscribed ¨S H"; to the
1721
right both floors have 2 stone mullion windows of 4 and 3 lights,
those at ground floor with hoodmoulds; and there are some similar
windows in the right return and rear walls. Rear extension of 3 bays
and 2 slightly lower storeys has a run of multiple-light windows at
ground floor of both sides: on the west side 10 lights with 2-light
casements at each end but all other lights blocked; and on the east
side also originally 10 lights but altered to make a door in the centre,
leaving 2 lights at the left end and 3 at the right end; at 1st floor
this part has some flush-mullion windows (mostly 3 lights, one lacking
mullions); in the angle with the rear wall on the east side is a small
gabled porch, and right of it a 3-stage stairlignt with round-headed
top light. Interior: housepart in 1st bay has original timber
structure of inglenook fireplace including cambered bressummer
supported on a heckpost with billet-moulded head; bressummer and 2
beams jointed onto it have tongue-stopped chamfer.

Listing NGR: SD7380617976

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26551344

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Recommended Books

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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)