Dingle Farmhouse

SD 71 NW TURTON BLACKBURN ROAD Edgworth 7/88 Dingle Farmhouse 27.1.1967 GV II

Farmhouse, C17, now house. Sandstone rubble with some quoins, slate roof with double chimneystack on ridge at junction of 2nd and 3rd bays. Three-bay baffle-entry plan with outshut to rear of 1st bay and modern glazed porch linking with modern addition to rear. Two storeys; original doorway at junction of 2nd and 3rd bays has large lintel with cambered head, and above this a small square panel for a datestone (damaged); very large buttress to right of door, interrupting a continuous dripcourse which crosses the heads of all ground floor windows: to the left, 4 and 6-light double-chamfered stone-mullion windows, and to the right one 3-light window with chamfered mullions; 1st floor windows similar to this have 3, 4, and 3 lights. Left return wall has ground floor windows of 3, 2 and 2 lights; right return wall has 5-light 1st floor window; rear has door at junction of 2nd and 3rd bays, 2-light window to 2nd bay, blocked window to 3rd bay. Interior: mostly altered but original beams supported by moulded stone corbels survive in parlour (partition wall removed); re-used beams in 3rd bay have old housings; and 1st floor of this bay is stone flagged.

Listing NGR: SD7346517846