Hillhead

ST 01 SE UFFCULME ASHILL 4/149 Hillhead - - II Detached house. Probably late C16 or early C17. Plastered cob on stone footings with the left-end wall rebuilt in concrete blocks. Gable end slate and asbestos slate roof. Originally a 3 or 4-room cross-(possibly through-) passage plan house, with the service end to the right of former passage which no longer survives. Axial stack, mostly of stone, heats hall, and probably backed on to passage. Internal end stack with brick shaft to service end. Inner room unheated. 2 storeys. Exterior. Front: 4-window range; first floor with C18 or early C19 2 and 3-light pegged casement windows, lintels at eaves level. Three 3-light casement windows to ground floor. French windows possibly mark site of original passage. Rear with leanto; small 2-light window with chamfered mullion and surround to newel stairs set immediately to rear of axial (hall) stack. Interior: service end now divided by partitions, with 2 chamfered cross ceiling beams with hollow step stops. Stopped cross beam to hall. Unchamfered beam between hall and inner room with mortices for muntins, indicates that there was a partition between the two rooms, now removed. Roof: 1 jointed cruck from the original roof survives, pegged and morticed at apex, with diagonal ridge piece. Some C18 pegged principals.

Listing NGR: ST0872811380