Dill Hall

SD 61 NW HEATH CHARNOCK DILL HALL BROW

6/138 Dill Hall - - II

Farmhouse, or pair of farmhouses, part dated 1725 but probably C17; altered; now 2 dwellings. Coursed sandstone rubble with large quoins; roofs of stone slates and slates with one ridge chimney at the junction, a gable chimney of brick and a modern brick chimney near the front. Two elements, each of 2 bays: left half is L-shaped with a 2-storey rear wing to 2nd bay and single storey extension to 1st bay; right half is double-pile with separately ridged rear roof and an outshut to rear of the 3rd bay (overlapping the wing of the 2nd bay). Left half, recently restored and modernised, has 2 restored 4-light stone mullion windows at ground floor (modern 3-light casements above) and at right end a door with stone lintel lettered in relief W . Right half has 2 tall A A I 1725 casement windows with stone heads each floor, 2 similar windows in right return wall, a modern glazed porch with an old stone porch to the rear of it, and an old round-headed single-light window in the rear gable. Rear wall has, inter alia, a 3-light stone mullion window at ground floor of wing, and a hollow-chamfered gable coping with a primitively carved head in the apex. Interior of left half altered; of right half, not inspected.

Listing NGR: SD6163215233