Chander Hill Farmhouse and Attached Boundary Walls to South East and North West

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WALTON SK37SW CHANDERHILL LANE 1264-0/2/123 (East side) 31/01/67 Chander Hill Farmhouse and attached boundary walls to South East and North West (Formerly Listed as: Chanderhill Farm) II

House and attached boundary walling to south-east and north-west. Early C17, incorporating elements of earlier house, with C19 and C20 alterations and additions. Thinly coursed rubble Coal Measures Sandstone, quoined in part, with ashlar dressings, single C20 sidewall stacks, and a concrete tiled roof, with coped gables and moulded kneelers, mostly C18 or later. L-plan house, with advanced parlour wing to north-east end, and with a C19 service wing to rear at south-west end. South-east elevation: 2 storeys and attics to both ranges, 4 bays, the main range of 3 bays extensively remodelled externally, with off-centre doorway flanked by 3-light casement windows, all C20, with curved glazing bars above asymmetrical transoms. Massive lintel to doorway and C20 glazed doors, all C20 joinery with glazing bars. Window openings have fake wedge lintels. First floor windows of 2 and 3 lights. Between windows, evidence of blocked single-light first-floor window. Advanced crosswing with central C17 ground-floor 6-light window, with double recessed chamfered mullions and a major mullion to centre, below a drip mould. First floor off-centre window of 4 lights, of similar detailing, again with major mullion and with 2-light C17 chamfered mullioned window to attic. C20 glazing throughout. North-west elevation, with crosswing gable slightly advanced, and 3-light chamfered mullioned window to ground and first floors, below a 2-light C17 attic window, all without drip moulds. C18 coping and kneelers. Main range with single tall 2-light C19 window with transoms, curved glazing bar heads, all below false wedge lintel. Evidence of blocked door and window openings. C19 range to south-west end has plain gable with single 2-light ground floor opening. INTERIOR: Much altered, but evidence of former hearth position to main range. Spine beams and oak joists evident throughout. Exposed roof timbers to parlour wing have cambered collar and tie beam truss supporting single purlin roof with curved windbraces. Partition wall is close studded. A rare example of the use of major mullions, and an early roof structure with curved braces. Attached boundary walls. That to the south-east of well coursed square sandstone, defines south-west boundary against Chanderhill Lane, and incorporates cellar window and garden doorway, with massive monolithic jambs, bearer stones, and lintel. Flat ashlar coping is ramped downwards in 2 steps, reducing wall height from 2.5 to 1.5m along its length. Wall terminates at the north-eastern gate pier of the garden entrance, some 40m to the south-east. Attached wall to north-west, 1.75m high, with half-round coping, terminates at end of inward curve, against plain stone pier, the south-east side of the service entrance to the rear (north-west) yard.

Listing NGR: SK3320070183

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