Foggs Cottage, Overhouses

Foggs Cottage is a 1729 farmhouse, now a house, located off Greens Arms Road in Chapeltown, Turton. The building is constructed of coursed sandstone with quoins, and has a whitewashed exterior and a stone slate roof with gable chimneys. It has a two-bay plan with a continuous outshut to the rear, which has a catslide roof.

The cottage is two storeys high, and features a wide, single-storey gabled porch in the centre, with a moulded doorway offset to the left. The porch gable has a small round opening, a two-light window on the right side, a stone side bench, and an inner door with a date stone above it, lettered ‘IA 1729’. There is one window on each floor to either side of the porch. These windows have straight heads and sills, with chamfered mullions. The ground floor windows have hoodmoulds. The left side has two square casements with glazing bars, and five small lights above. The right side has five lights at ground floor and four above. A single-storey lean-to is attached to the right side, along with a three-light first-floor window.

The rear elevation has low, single-storey sections with long runs of chamfered mullion windows. The first bay has five lights, and the second bay has seven lights, with a square middle light flanked by king mullions. Inside, the second bay’s outshut has a large beam, and on the first floor there are two large windbraced purlins. The outshut to the second bay appears to be an addition.