Peter'S Farmhouse

SADDLEWORTH POBGREEN LANE SE 00 NW (west side) 4/237 Peter's 19/6/67 Farmhouse - II Farmhouse, now house. Late C17 with later alterations and additions. Hammer-dressed watershot stone with graduated stone slate roof. Single-depth plan with 2 storeys and 7 bays (including addition). 3 doors all obscured by C20 porches - one with square-cut surround and that to bay 2 with chamfered surround and obtuse-angled lintel. Quoins. 4-light double-chamfered cavetto-moulded mullion window to each floor of bay 1 and remains of similar 2-light window on first floor of bay 2. Other windows are of 1 and 2 lights with square-cut stone surrounds and probably date from C19. Bay 7 is a flat-roofed C20 addition. Plain stone eaves gutter brackets. Coped gables with kneelers. 3 ridge chimney stacks. Each gable has two 2-light arch-headed double- chamfered cavetto-moulded mullion windows. 3-light double- chamfered window to rear, a 4-light recessed flat-faced mullion window but otherwise C19 windows as above. Bulletin of the Saddleworth Historical Society, Vol.2, No.4, 1972.

Listing NGR: SE0080206175