Description

SD 71 NW TURTON HORROCKS ROAD

7/130 Horrocks Fold Farmhouse
and No. 3 Horrocks Fold
27.1.1967 (Formerly listed as Horrocks Fold)
- II*

Farmhouse, C17, with C18 addition to rear (No. 3), modern addition
at right side; now 2 dwellings. The main item of interest is the
original house which is of 2 bays and 3 storeys with the principal
room at 1st floor. Coursed sandstone rubble with quoins, stone slate
roof with gable copings and kneelers, one chimney at left gable;
moulded bands on 2 levels carried over the heads of windows at ground
and 1st floors. Present front door on south side in modern single
storey gabled porch offset right of centre; ground floor has a large 2-
light mullioned window to the left, and a small window to the right,
1st floor has 2 double-chamfered windows of 3 stepped lights; 2nd
floor has 2 oval windows in square surrounds. Left return wall has 2
windows on each floor, at 2nd floor both oval, but below this all
different: those on the left are both of 3 recessed lights, each light
having a moulded surround, but that at 1st floor is ogee-headed; those
on the right both 2 lights with chamfered surrounds, but that at 1st
floor has round-headed lights with shallow moulding. There is a square
moulded panel for a datestone on the band between ground floor windows.
The projecting porch to the rear of this side has large quoins, moulded
doorway with large lintel, above which a band carries round the whole;
and a round-headed light at 1st floor level of the rear wall. To the
rear the 2-bay 2-storey house of coursed sandstone rubble has a slate
roof, gable chimneys, and on the west side 2 windows each floor, that
on the right at ground floor recessed with 2 mullions remaining and a
hoodmould, others altered (east side wall has been brought forward).
Interior: large-framing timber partition wall to full height, finishing
with truss which has large tie-beam, curved struts and collar, and
carries trenched purlins; quarter-turn stone staircase with open string and
turned balusters (now to 1st floor only); narrow beams,some with roll
moulding, others small chamfer; 1st floor parlour with moulded plaster
decoration to chimneypiece and to panels of partition wall, all
foliated; decorated door to this room with 2 full-height round-headed
panels which have gryphons carved in the heads and are surrounded by
grouped patterns. History: probably the birthplace of John Horrocks,
founder of Preston cotton firm Horrocks Miller and Co., in late C18.
An unusual type of house for the area with good internal features.

Listing NGR: SD7382316936

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17534189

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)