Lower Tunstead Farmhouse

SADDLEWORTH TUNSTEAD LANE SE 00 SW (south-west side) 6/340 Lower Tunstead - Farmhouse G.V. II Farmhouse. "EKE 1710" on door lintel but appearing largely to date from the late C18. Hammer-dressed watershot stone with graduated stone slate roof. 2 rooms on each floor with loom workshop on the second floor and gable entrance porch. The south side has quoins, 3 and 4-light recessed flat-faced mullion ground floor windows, similar 3-light on first floor along with a re-located 4-light double-chamfered mullion window, and three 3-light flat-faced windows to workshop level. Triangular-headed lintel to porch and inside porch. The rear retains some of the earlier masonry which includes a 2-light double-chamfered mullion window and a similar one which is hewn out of one piece of stone. Two 3-light workshop windows. A flight of stone steps against the gable give separate access to the workshop. Gable stacks one of which is rendered.

Listing NGR: SE0040604445