Willow Hill

DENTON HIGH PARK SE 14 NW 9/30 Willow Hill - II

House. Mid - late C17 with late C18 sub-division and re-roofing. Coursed gritstone rubble, graduated stone slate roof. 2 storeys, 4 bays, one room deep, lobby-entry plan. Quoins, plinth. Entrance between bays 1 and 2: chamfered quoined jambs and cambered lintel; blocked chamfered round-headed light above. Chamfered mullion windows, most having a mullion removed and another repositioned. Ground floor, left to right: bay 1 - 3 lights, now 2 lights; bay 2: a blocked inserted doorway with tie-stone jambs, now a window, square window to left; bay 3: 3 reduced to 2 lights, with a blocked inserted doorway to right; bay 4: square window. First floor: bay 1 - 3, now 2 lights, bay 2 - 4, now 2 lights; bay 3 - square window; bay 4 - 3, now 2 lights. Shaped kneelers and gable copings; banded stack opposite entrance and at right gable end. Rear: a blocked first-floor door to bay 2. Interior: large back-to-back fireplaces opposite the entrance; stone staircase against rear wall, bay 3. The house appears to have been built as a single dwelling combining living accommodation and farm storage; it was divided into 3 cottages in the late C18 when the 2 doors were inserted and alterations were made to the mullion windows to allow in more light. Probably at the same time, or a little later, the eaves were raised and a new roof structure and chimneys were built. In process of restoration at time of resurvey.

Listing NGR: SE1469849856