Hill Top Farmhouse

SPAUNTON SPAUNTON BANK SE 78 NW (west side) 10/111 Hill Top Farmhouse - II

Farmhouse. c1760 with C20 alteration. Probably for William Hartas. Coursed sandstone with tooled quoins: pantile roof with one stone and 2 rebuilt stacks. 3-cell, hearth-passage plan with outshut. 2-storey, 4-window front, gable-end on road. Half-glazed door to left of centre. Inserted French door to centre flanked by enlarged small-pane fire window to left and inserted small-pane casement to right. End windows are 2-light large-pane casements. First floor windows are large-pane horizontal sliding sashes, of 2 lights to centre and 3 lights to each end. Stone sills to all windows. Renewed lintels to ground floor openings and timber lintels to first floor. Coped gables and shaped kneelers. End and left of centre stacks. Right gable wall: the initial H in wrought iron attached to wall over 2-light, large-pane horizontal sliding sash. Interior: square section joists to ground floor. In centre room, the inglenook fireplace survives, with bar-stopped, chamfered bressumer on panelled heck and heck post. Fireplace lintel is segment-arched on moulded corbels and plain jambs. To left, spice cupboard door of 4 raised and fielded panels. Door of 6 raised and fielded panels between rooms to right of cross passage.

Listing NGR: SE7222989956