Description

KEIGHLEY BROW TOP ROAD SE 03 NW Haworth 8/27 Brow Top Farmhouse

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Farmhouse. Dated 'MGP 1699', much altered and extended late C18 and C19. For Michael and Grace Pighills (Pickles). Coursed dressed millstone grit. Stone slate roof. 2 storeys, 5 bays. North elevation: Quoins. Late C18-early C19 conversion to cottages evidenced by 3 doorways and 2- and 4-light flat-faced mullion windows, all with flush stone surrounds. Other later windows. Shaped kneelers. Ashlar coping. South elevation: the 3 central bays comprise part of the original house having continuous dripstone to ground floor, roundel with date and cherub, and double-chamfered windows with splayed mullions of 4- and 11-lights to ground floor and of 2, 4, and 2 lights to first floor, some mullions now removed. Two later doorways, one inserted in the 11-light window. One-bay additions to left and right, that to left with a 3-light, flat-faced mullion window in flush stone surround to each floor. West elevation: one 2-light and one single-light double-chamfered window with splayed mullion, now sunk in thickness of wall broadened later. Projecting single-storey outbuilding not of particular importance. Cold store adjoining south-east corner under rising ground has stone floor and double stone table. The Pighills were involved in the local wool industry.

Listing NGR: SE0402237172

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