Springhill Farmhouse

TL 0675 BRINGTON AND MOLESWORTH MOLESWORTH

20/22 Springhill Farmhouse

GV II

House, formerly a farmhouse. Dated 1629 on mantel beam to hearth. Late C18 or early C19, C19 and C20 alterations and additions. Timber-framed and plastered with some original pargetting to rear elevation, painted brick. Collyweston slate roof to main range and slated and plain tiled roofs. Coursed limestone rubble ridge chimney stack with red brick upper stage, end stack to right hand. Two storeys and attics. Original three unit lobby entry plan, partly demolished in C19 for two storey addition to south-east, C20 rear outshuts. Main entrance to right hand with six-panelled door, (former entrance by stack blocked); canted bay window to left hand with hung sashes and two sixteen-paned hung sash windows; one C17 leaded light first floor window (similar window in rear elevation), and two sixteen-paned and two twelve-paned hung sash windows; two gabled dormer windows with casements. (Fine C17 boarded door with scored geometric pattern and original fleur de lis hinges in rear elevation). Interior: Boxed staircase to north-west room rising to attic floor. Two back to back open hearths with baking ovens, one with moulded mantel beam, and one to central room with dated beam and carved roundels repeated on moulded ceiling beams. One sealed three-light ovolo moulded attic window.

Listing NGR: TL0744275904