Spring Hill

Spring Hill is a villa built around 1820 to 1830, which was enlarged in the late 19th century. At the time of the survey in 1991, it was undergoing alterations and renovation. The building is constructed from chisel-dressed sandstone ashlar and features a hipped slate roof, showcasing a Georgian style. It has an L-plan layout, consisting of a rectangular double-depth double-fronted main range with a mid-19th century kitchen wing added to the rear.

The villa stands two storeys tall, with cellars and an attic, and has three symmetrical windows. It includes a plinth, a first-floor sill band, a plain frieze, and a moulded gutter cornice. A central porch, accessed by four steps, features panelled pilasters, a plain frieze, a moulded cornice, and a blocking course. The entrance has panelled double doors with an overlight, and an inner door with etched glass. The windows have raised sills and plain surrounds, and they are sashed without glazing bars, though all were protected by boarding during the survey. The building has two square chimneys.

The left return wall has a two-window arrangement in matching style, while the right-hand return wall features a two-window layout with a square porch leading to the rear wing. The rear of the villa includes a round-headed stair window in the main range, although the original joinery and glazing with coloured margin panes had been removed for repair at the time of the survey. The ground floor of the rear wing has large tripartite windows, with one on the outer side removed during the survey.

Inside, the villa retains original panelled doors and architraves, along with a panelled archway in the entrance hall. The front rooms boast elaborate moulded plaster cornices, while the rear left room features mahogany panelling. A doglegged staircase with elegant cast-iron balusters leads to the upper floors. The cellar contains a cast-iron oven-and-boiler range, and there is an iron water tank or reservoir filling the entire roof space of the kitchen wing, which was formerly filled by a pump, making it a very unusual survival that predates Burnley's public water supply.