Bolehill House

PARISH OF BARLOW BOLEHILL SK 37 SW 10/1 Bolehill House 31.1.67 II House, formerly an academy or school and schoolhouse. 1677, with repairs and alterations in 1797 and C19. Coursed squared coal measures sandstone with a shallow chamfered plinth, quoins, coped west gable with moulded kneelers, intermediate and end ridge stacks and a stone slated roof. Irregular T-plan house, the main range comprising six bays with a lower bay to the east end, and a two storey entrance porch at the west end, in the same plane as the main range, but only half the width of the house, its diminutive gable facing west. South elevation. Two storeys, seven bays, the three western bays being further advanced, and with a lower eaves than the remaining three two storey bays. At the west end a doorway to the porch with a quoined surround and a planked door. Each bay with a 3-light window to the ground floor, and a 2-light above, all the windows having chamfer mullions and glazing bar casements with gothic intersecting heads. The ground floor openings sit beneath a continuous dripmoulding which embraces the doorway and which has a label stop. The three bays to the east contain an entrance bay, with a quoined doorway and a planked door and above, a pointed arched opening with a moulded surround and glazing bars. This doorway and the two 3-light chamfer mullioned windows to the east also sit beneath a continuous dripmoulding, the two remaining first floor windows being 2-light openings, all with gothic glazings. The lower bay to the east end is plain. An inserted plaque at first floor level above the west door reads 'This Acad'y was Built by the inhabitatns of Barl'w in the year 1677 and was duly repaired in 1797 Demms(?) Mas't'.

Listing NGR: SK3331374556