Wheatley Hill Farmhouse

SE 20 NE 5/66 29.3.65

WHEATLEY HILL LANE Denby Dale Wheatley Hill Farmhouse

II*

Farmhouse. West wing probably C16, the rest probably 1651 (datestone). Altered. West wing rendered with exposed timber framing to rear gable. The rest coursed rubble with quoins. Stone slate roofs with very tall brick stack over house body. Chamfered gable copings on moulded kneelers to east wing. Two storeys. U-plan, the open part of which is infilled by a later outshut to the house body. The garden front is mainly altered but has one 3-light double chamfered window to 1st floor. Fire window to right part of house body. The elevation to the farmyard has later outshut and recent porch to house body. The west wing has exposed framing consisting of jowelled side posts, bressumer, projecting tie-beam and king post truss. Diagonal studding to gable and 1st floor. 1st floor window with studding below. Rendered ground floor. The east wing has double chamfered windows with hood moulds, some altered.

Interior: The wall of the house within the outshut has good, enriched doorway with imposts and inscribed lintel 'PETER HAWKSWORTH 1651'. The house body has 2 spine beams supported on a deep bressumer in front of the fireplace which with the heck post, is stop chamfered at front and stop splayed at back. Backing on to this, on both floors are C17 fireplaces, within the east wing. Evidence of timber posting and bressumers in the west wing suggests the wing is 4 bays long. King-post trusses in east wing with immense tie-beams.

Listing NGR: SE2522509740