Hazelhead Farmhouse With Gate Piers And Garden Wall To Front

SD 97 SE 11/84

HAWKSWICK MAIN STREET (north side) Hazelhead Farmhouse with gate piers and garden wall to front

GV II

Farmhouse, wall and gate piers. Dated 1839. For Thomas Tennant. Coursed squared limestone, ashlar dressings, graduated stone slate roof, ashlar wall and gate piers. 2 rooms deep with central entrance hall; 2 storeys, 3 bays, wall approximately 80 cm high, curved and approximately 15 metres long, broken by square piers approximately 2 metres high. House: central 6-panel door in plain surround with cornice and date plaque inscribed "T T 1839". Flanking and first-floor sashes in architraves with projecting sill bands, the upper windows having original glazing bars. Pilaster strips to corners; moulded stone gutter brackets, gable copings, corniced end stacks. Rear large central round-arched stair window; flanking sashes as front. Interior: moulded ceiling cornices and plaster details to entrance and stair hall; kitchen, to rear left, has large fireplace and the dairy/larder to rear right has large blue granite flagstones and shelves believed to have come from near Austwick. In process of restoration at time of resurvey. Wall has deep plinth, 3 courses of ashlar and a ridged coping, the piers have moulded cornice and square acorn finials. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: SD9540070654