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placename:- Hill Farm
locality:- Biggar
locality:- Walney Island
parish Barrow-in-Furness borough, once in Lancashire
county:- Cumbria
building/s
coordinates:- SD19216616
10Km square:- SD16
References Listed Buildings 2010

1Km square SD1966

photograph

Hill Farm -- Biggar -- Walney Island -- Barrow-in-Furness -- Cumbria / -- 1.7.2011

database:- Listed Buildings 2010

Listed Buildings 2010

courtesy of English Heritage
/ 12 / BIGGAR VILLAGE / BARROW IN FURNESS / BARROW IN FURNESS / CUMBRIA / II / 388410 / SD1921366154
courtesy of English Heritage
Farmhouse. Late C17, altered C19. Cement-rendered stone, graduated slate roof. 2 storeys, 3 windows to 1st floor. C20 glazed porch encloses part-glazed door; broad 4-pane sash on right in position of former 3-light mullioned window having chamfered surround but with lowered sill, C17 hoodmould. Tall 4-pane sash to left of porch and broader 4-pane sash beyond both having projecting sills. Sash windows to 1st floor. Front wall at left end of house curves with the lane. End stacks.
INTERIOR: beamed ceiling in lounge with transverse beams including one of deeper section in position of smokehood bressumer. One principal-rafter truss; right end stack oversails inner gable wall on wooden cantilevers evincing the existence of former smokehood.
district:- Barrow in Furness
listed building
coordinates:- SD19216615
date:- 2010
period:- 2010s

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