Spring Hill

BURNLEY

SD8332SE MANCHESTER ROAD 906-1/19/83 (East side) 29/09/77 No.112 Spring Hill

GV II

Villa. c1820-30; enlarged in later C19; altered, and renovation in progress at time of survey (1991). Chisel-dressed sandstone ashlar, hipped slate roof. Georgian style. L-plan formed by rectangular double-depth double-fronted main range with mid C19 kitchen wing added to rear. 2 storeys with cellars and attic, 3 windows, symmetrical; with a plinth, 1st-floor sillband, plain frieze and moulded gutter cornice; a central porch up 4 steps, with panelled pilasters, plain frieze, moulded cornice and blocking course, panelled double doors with an overlight, and an inner door with etched glass; windows with raised sills and plain surrounds, sashed without glazing bars (and all protected by boarding at time of survey). 2 square chimneys. 2-window left return wall in matching style; 2:2 window right-hand return wall with a square porch to the rear wing. Rear: round-headed stair-window to the main range (the original joinery and glazing with coloured margin panes removed for repair at time of survey); large tripartite windows at ground floor of rear wing (that on the outer side removed at time of survey). INTERIOR: original panelled doors and architraves; panelled archway in entrance hall; elaborate moulded plaster cornices in front rooms; mahogany panelling in rear left room; doglegged staircase with elegant cast-iron balusters; cellar with cast-iron oven-and-boiler range; iron water tank or reservoir filling the whole of the roof space of the kitchen wing, formerly filled by a pump (a very unusual survival, antedating Burnley's public water supply).

Listing NGR: SD8361232058