HIGHER HILL FARMHOUSE

HIGHER HILL FARMHOUSE, HIGHER HILL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1241536
Date first listed:: 24-Nov-1966
List Entry Name:: HIGHER HILL FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: HIGHER HILL FARMHOUSE, HIGHER HILL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1241536
Date first listed:: 24-Nov-1966
List Entry Name:: HIGHER HILL FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: HIGHER HILL FARMHOUSE, HIGHER HILL

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: HIGHER HILL FARMHOUSE, HIGHER HILL

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Blackburn with Darwen (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Tockholes
National Grid Reference:: SD 65769 22585

Details

SD 62 SE TOCKHOLES HIGHER HILL

4/65 Higher Hill Farmhouse 24.11.1966 GV II*

Large farmhouse, C17, with some C19 alterations. Sandstone rubble with quoins, stone slate roof with gable copings and kneelers, one chimney on the right at the junction of the 1st and 2nd bays, a smaller chimney behind the ridge at the junction of the 2nd and 3rd, and another at the front left corner. F-plan: 3 bays with projecting wing to the front of the 1st bay and projecting porch at the junction of the 1st and 2nd bays, 2 storey outshut to rear. Two and a half storeys, presenting 2 gables to the front: gabled 2-storey porch with oversailing upper floor has a segmental-headed moulded doorway in a surround of dressed blocks with a moulded cornice, a moulded datestone surround rising from this (now containing a carving), a 3-light window at 1st floor and a blocked round-headed light in the gable, which has kneelers. Some windows have been replaced with C19 sashes, but there are original windows, mostly with hollow-moulded mullions, chamfered surrounds, and hoodmoulds, in all walls: wing has a blocked round-headed light and a 2-light window at ground floor and another in the attic, a hoodmould to a blocked window in the re-entrant with a single light above, and a 2-light window on each floor of the return wall; there are blocked attic windows with hoodmoulds in both gables of the main range; and in the rear wall a king-mullioned window of 3+3 lights, a 2-light firewindow; and a 3-light window on each floor of the 1st bay. Otherwise, the principal external features of interest are a complete garderobe at 1st floor of the return wall of the wing, and a stone at 1st floor of the right gable wall lettered "RW" (= Ralph Walmsley?). Interior: housepart in 2nd bay has 2 lateral beams with ovolo moulding, parlour in 1st bay has Tudor-arched stone fireplace with chamfered surround, and is now opened out to include the whole of an original stone staircase which has ¼-turns to left and to right, the latter supported on a moulded stone corbel, the former passing the restored single-seat garderobe. History: home of the Walmsleys, yeomen, who bought the Ryal estate in 1660: house is very similar to Ryal farmhouse (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SD6576922585

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Legacy System number:: 440642
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.