Description

SD 90 SW FAILSWORTH MEDLOCK ROAD
(north side)
7/37 No. 170
(Diamond Hall
24/3/66 Farmhouse)
- II
Farmhouse. Late C17. English garden wall bond brick with
slate roof. 2-unit baffle-entry plan with small later
additions to rear and left. Central gabled porch. Original
boarded door with strap hinges.Oak-mullioned casement window
to left beneath diagonally set brick head and elliptical
brick arch and hoodmould. 2 later windows to right. Small
arched light with hoodmould (now blocked) above porch. Cross
and diamond patterns in raised brick at first floor level
and 2 windows: one a horizontally sliding sash, the other a
later alteration. Central chimney stack. More decorative
brick to left gable. Right gable-end rebuilt in C20. 2
elliptical headed windows to rear on either side of a small
wing. Interior retains chamfered floor beams with ogee stops
and an inglenook fireplace in which the ovolo-moulded
bressumer beam rests on carved corbels; an unusual feature.

Listing NGR: SD9069400459

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26596022

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings