Hill Top Farmhouse

SD 71 NW TURTON (off) BLACKBURN ROAD Edgworth 7/91 Hill Top Farmhouse - - 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