Hill Top Farmhouse And Attached Archway

SE14SW BINGLEY DRAKE HILL SE109414 (west side)

2/62 Hill Top Farmhouse and attached archway

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House and attached archway. Mid C17. Hammer-dressed stone, dressed quoins, stone slate roof. 2 storeys. 2-cell, double-depth direct entry plan. All are double-chamfered mullioned windows. Ground floor front has former 4-light and 5-light windows with hoodmoulds, mullions removed and with lowered sills (modern glazing). Above, a 4-light and a 5-light window. Doorway to right-hand end has composite jambs and lintel with sunken recess (for date?) and chamfered surround. Coped gable with kneelers to right. Central stack to ridge (rendered). Rear has 3 mullioned windows all altered but formerly of 4 lights, 3 lights and 3 lights. Steps lead to lst-floor doorway with tie-stone jambs, possibly a taking-in door formerly connected with textile manufacture. Stack to left-hand corner. Right-hand return wall has 3-light window (blocked) and 2 of 2 lights above, all with hoodmoulds.

Attached to left-hand end of rear is semicircular-arched stone gateway with composite jambs, much weathered but retaining Ionic capitals to pilasters, moulded impost and ramped coping the apex surmounted by ball finial. Inner rebate for gates.

Listing NGR: SE1092441490