Hill Top Farmhouse

SE 42 NE 8/22 3rd February 1967

LEDSHAM LS25 CLAYPIT LANE (west side) Hill Top Farmhouse

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Farmhouse. Perhaps C17 wing to earlier building, restored in C19, or perhaps C19 cottage in C17 style. Magnesian limestone rubble with some quoins, steeply-pitched stone slate roof. T-plan: single cell front block, with rear service wing. Two storeys; plinth with chamfered coping; east front has a chamfered doorway with 4-centred head and to the right of this a C19 three-light mullioned window with hoodmould; south gable wall has recessed double-chamfered 3-light stone mullioned window on each floor, both with hoodmoulds and both heavily weathered, but with traces of C19 chiselling on some unweathered surfaces. The north gable wall has an external chimney stack with 2 diagonal chimneys, and to the left of this a window at 1st floor. The rear wing is of one bay and 2 lower storeys, and has altered openings. Sable eaves project on ends of small purlins.

Interior of front block has an inserted partition making an entrance passage from the front door, and no visible evidence of C17 structure.

Listing NGR: SE4547029692