Meadowcroft'S Farmhouse

SD 71 NW 7/102

TURTON BURY ROAD Edgworth Meadowcroft's Farmhouse

II Farmhouse, probably c.1700, altered, now house. Coursed sandstone rubble with quoins, slate roof on 2 levels with gable chimneys to the higher of these. Built on slope, 2 bays with continuous outshut and smaller added bay slightly lower and set back to the right. Two storeys: original rear outshut, raised, now entrance front, has modern porch to 2nd bay, a 3-light window with chamfered mullions to 1st bay, similar window in centre of 1st floor; 3rd (added) bay has similar window of 2+3 lights (5th blocked), rear of this part has a 4-light window on each floor, the lower with a hoodmould and the upper lacking 2 mullions, a doorway with modern canopy and a small round-headed window above it; rear of main house has 2 large buttresses, a 6-light window (lacking one mullion) to the 2nd bay, 2 altered windows with flush mullions at 1st floor. Interior: 2nd bay has large inglenook with stone heck and chamfered bressummer, containing a stone fireplace with moulded shouldered jambs and very large lintel undercut as a depressed arch, recesses for salt cupboards on each side; beams with cyma-stopped small chamfer; roof of outshut supported by very large principals and purlins.

Listing NGR: SD7436716033