Diamond Hall Farmhouse

SD 90 SW FAILSWORTH MEDLOCK ROAD (north side) 7/37 No. 170 (Diamond Hall 24/3/66 Farmhouse) - II Farmhouse. Late C17. English garden wall bond brick with slate roof. 2-unit baffle-entry plan with small later additions to rear and left. Central gabled porch. Original boarded door with strap hinges.Oak-mullioned casement window to left beneath diagonally set brick head and elliptical brick arch and hoodmould. 2 later windows to right. Small arched light with hoodmould (now blocked) above porch. Cross and diamond patterns in raised brick at first floor level and 2 windows: one a horizontally sliding sash, the other a later alteration. Central chimney stack. More decorative brick to left gable. Right gable-end rebuilt in C20. 2 elliptical headed windows to rear on either side of a small wing. Interior retains chamfered floor beams with ogee stops and an inglenook fireplace in which the ovolo-moulded bressumer beam rests on carved corbels; an unusual feature.

Listing NGR: SD9069400459