Hole Farmhouse

WITHERIDGE HOLE HILL SS 81 NW 5/83 Hole Farmhouse 20.2.67 GV II Farmhouse. Late C17, late C18 and C19 refenestration. Rubble core with rendering and roughcast and whitewashed, hipped slate roof stacks with brick shafts. Plan and development: long single room depth plan; lobby entrance to right 2 storeyed porch projecting over door opening. This lobby backs onto a stack which heats rooms to the left and the right. The right room a small parlour, to left a kitchen with a large fireplace; beyond it to the left a hall with a rear lateral stack; beyond this room to the left an inner room with axial stack, further room of unknown purpose to the left of this. In the C20 the left room and the inner room altered; door opening into the hall from, outside blocked. Exterior: 2-storey long front; 3:4:1:1 bays, 2 and 3-light casements with glazing bars, all C19; 4 sash windows to the right, 9 and 12-panes, exposed sash boxes; eighth window from the left in projecting 2-storeyed porch with a front-facing gable; door opening with a 6-panelled door. Interior with featureless parlour to the right; kitchen with fireplace with a bressumer with chamfer. Hall with rear lateral stack with chamfered bressumer with step stops, chamfered axial ceiling beam with similar stops. Part of C17 collar- beam roof survives, remainder of the roof was replaced in C19.

Listing NGR: SS8148415286