Dingle House

SD 61 SE TURTON (off) BELMONT ROAD Belmont

9/84 Dingle House (formerly listed as 27.1.1967 Hampsons Farm house under Springside) - II

Farmhouse, probably C16, altered and enlarged in C17, renovated c.1980, now house. Sandstone blocks and rubble, slate roof, external chimney at right end. Cruck-framed range of 4 bays with projecting wing to front of 4th bay. Two storeys; entrance by modern lean-to porch in the angle with the wing; blocked doorway with large lintel in 1st bay; ground floor of main range has 4 windows with chamfered mullions but otherwise all different, 2 having square lights; 1st floor has one very small window in the 3rd bay, and inserted window to the left. Wing has a 5-light double-chamfered stone mullion window with a hoodmould on each floor, and the right return wall of this wing breaks back round an external chimney stack, and has at 1st floor of the gable end a garderobe with moulded corbels. Rear wall altered. Interior: 3 full cruck trusses, the first 2 with finely shaped blades of large scantling, the 3rd inferior in both respects, all with spurs and dorsals which carry trenched purlins, some windbraced; collars remain but tie-beams have been severed. In the wing is a large rectangular fireplace with chamfered surround, the lintel probably originally Tudor-arched but now altered, and the chimney-piece incorporating at the upper corners corbels supporting the ceiling beams.

Listing NGR: SD6969514717