Spenser House

Details

SD 83 SE WORSTHORNE WITH HURSTWOOD HURSTWOOD 3/53 Spenser House 1.4.52 GV II*

Farmhouse, now house. Probably mid-C16, altered. Large sandstone blocks brought to courses, with quoins, stone slate roof. H-plan facing south: hall with 2-bay crosswings. Now all 2 storeys, but formerly with central open hall; at left end of hall a low 2-storey porch under carried-down roof of shallow pitch, with wide chamfered outer doorway, a 3-light window above with round-headed lights and hollow spandrels, chamfered inner doorway, and in right hand wall a small arched doorway and a small window above (both blocked, visible internally); hall has two slightly-recessed windows of 3 round-headed lights with hollow spandrels, and above there a large gable with a window to light the inserted upper floor (3 lights with chamfered flush mullions); gable of west wing has an altered 3-light window on each floor; gable of east wing has a 3-light window on each floor, the lower with chamfered flush mullions and the upper with round-headed lights like those in the hall. A ridge chimney on each wing. Rear of hall has a gable in line with that in front, with an apex chimney, various altered openings, and large added outshut, overlapping left wing and hall, with catslide roof and tall chimney at the rear. Left return wall of west wing has a 2-light mullioned window with lintel inscribed "DAIRY". Interior: coupled triangular-headed chamfered doorways into west wing; in front bay of this wing a large rectangular fireplace with moulded surround, compartmented ceiling formed by 4 major and 4 minor beams, all chamfered; stone flagged ceiling to rear bay of this wing (and vaulted cellar below); separated triangular-headed chamfered doorways from hall into east wing; early C17 inserted partition wall at lower end of hall, with chamfered segmental-headed doorway; some early C17 moulded plaster decoration in hall including original surround to head of this door, and between the beams at the opposite end a foliated pattern with little winged figures in the corners; king post roof trusses with angle struts, and arch-braced open trusses in wings. Reference RCHM pp. 174-5 et passim,

Listing NGR: SD8808531352

Legacy

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184057

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Sources

Books and journals
Pearson, S, Rural Houses of the Lancashire Pennines 1560-1760, (1985), 174-5

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