Description

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TQ 54 NW
4/144

HILDENBOROUGH
LOWER STREET (south side)
Summerthorn Farmhouse

(Formerly listed as Lower Street Farmhouse)

GV
II

Former farmhouse. Late C17 with C18 alteration and a C19 rear addition. Framed construction, the main range underbuilt on the ground floor in Flemish bond brick with blue headers, a moulded fascia board at first floor level and the upper storey tile-hung with bands of scalloped tiles. Rear wing nogged with brick to the ground floor, C19 addition tile-hung on the first floor with brown shaped tiles; peg-tile roof; brick stacks.

Plan: Sited end on to the road, facing east. The framed building is L plan, the main block two-rooms wide with an entrance into a central passage containing the stair, parlour to the left (south) kitchen to the right, with an unheated rear right service room. In the C18 the house was refurbished, re-windowed and may have been partly underbuilt in brick at the same time. In the C19 the house was extended by a heated kitchen wing filling in the rear left corner, roofed on a north south axis and effectively giving the house a double depth plan and involving the re-use of the old kitchen as a second parlour.

Exterior: two storeys, attic and cellar. Roof hipped at right (north) end of the main range, gabled at the left, gabled at the rear of the service wing; massive projecting right end double stack, serving the old kitchen fireplace. Slightly asymmetrical three-window front with steps up to an almost central C18 six-panel front door with an overlight and flat porch hood on brackets. Two ground floor tripartite sash windows, possibly C18 in origin but reglazed with C19 four-pane sashes. The three first-floor windows have C18 moulded architraves and are glazed with C19 four-pane sashes. Three first floor attic dormers with hipped roofs and probably C19 two-light casements with glazing bars. The rear elevation has C20 windows.

Interior: Chamfered stopped ceiling beam to the two ground floor rooms, the right (north) room in the main range has a massive kitchen fireplace, almost the whole width of the room, with an oak lintel and a brick strainer arch in the chimney breast. C19 dog-leg stair. Jowled wall posts to the wall-framing visible upstairs. Some C18 joinery survives on the first floor including two-panel doors and a fitted wall cupboard.

Roof: Inaccessible at time of survey (1988) but the rear wing retains old rafters.

Summerthorn Farmhouse is said to have been the home of the Children family, one of the most successful yeoman families of the district, from at least the C13 ('Dachurst Manor and Selby's Farm', text of a talk by J.M. Edwards to the Leigh Historical Society, 21.2.86).

Group value with listed farmbuildings on the site.

Listing NGR: TQ5458948148

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26540413

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Recommended Books

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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)