Hilltop Farmhouse

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

The following items shall be added:-

SK 16 SW PARISH OF HARTINGTON NEITHER QUARTER HEATHCOTE

7/143 Hilltop Farmhouse

GV II Farmhouse (unoccupied at time of inspection, May 1990). Circa 1700 (full cruck Construction) recased and extended in mid C18 with a rear wing added in the mid C19. Random rubble rendered throughout with stone dressings.

Tiled roofs. 4-Unit plan (formerly probably 3-Unit) with rear wing. 2 storeys. Exterior: old range with dressed stone end stacks; front with one 1st floor windows; 3 ground floor windows with stone surrounds, casements to all. Right return plain with numerous 'throughs' projecting.

Left return with window to each floor in plain stone surrounds. Wing: quoined with similar dressings to window surrounds. Interior understood to contain 3 full crucks with saddles and spurs; halved joints.

Corbelled stone fireplace to left (principal) room, another contemporary (i,e, mid C18) plain fireplace to right-hand room. Principal axial ceiling beam chamfered with hollow step stops. Victoria joinery elsewhere.

Listing NGR: SK1465860194

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/1427 IOE Records taken by David Morten; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Mr David Morten. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project