Higher Twist Field Farmhouse

SD 62 NW PLEASINGTON (off) BILLINGE END ROAD

SD 644 277

1/45 Higher Twist Field Farmhouse - - II

Farmhouse, probably C17, raised probably c.1800, now house. Whitewashed sandstone rubble with quoins, corrugated sheet roof with one ridge chimney. Rectangular 3-bay plan with a through passage behind the stack, probably originally a single-storey longhouse. Two storeys, the upper level of the walls noticeably set back and lacking quoins; modern single-storey kitchen now attached to centre of front; right of this is a chamfered doorway (a matching doorway in the rear wall opposed to this), left of it at ground floor 2 horizontal rectangular windows with chamfered surrounds, which were probably originally 2 and 3 light mullioned windows; at the right end a former doorway is now blocked and mostly concealed by external stone steps to a 1st floor loft door (an inserted window left of the steps). At 1st floor are 2 windows, one square, other altered or inserted. Rear: in addition to the chamfered doorway there is a 2-light flush-mullion window to the 3rd bay, a small window (perhaps formerly mullioned) to the right of this, 2 altered ground floor windows, and 2 square 1st floor windows. Interior: housepart in middle bay has large inglenook with heck, chamfered bressummer (supporting 2 chamfered beams), and fireplace with stone jambs which have moulded shoulders.

Listing NGR: SD6449127802