Higher Whitehalgh Farmhouse

Higher Whitehalgh Farmhouse is a farmhouse dated 1616, constructed from coursed sandstone rubble with quoins. The roof is made of graded slate at the front and stone slate at the rear, featuring a chimney on the ridge and another at the right gable, along with stone gable copings. The building has a four-bay baffle-entry plan, with a projecting porch at the second bay and a dairy located at the rear of the same bay.

It stands two storeys high, with a two-storey gabled porch that has a finial at the apex. The porch features a chamfered doorway offset to the left, a similar inner doorway, and a small blocked opening to the right above. There is a 2-light window on the first floor with a hoodmould, and above this is a datestone with a moulded surround, inscribed in relief with the year 1616. The right side of the building has a blocked window at ground floor level, while the left side has a similar window on the first floor.

There are four windows on each floor, all except for the altered ground floor window to the right of the porch, featuring hollow-chamfered mullions in deeply chamfered surrounds, with the lower windows having hoodmoulds. To the left of the porch, there are two 5-light windows with linked hoodmoulds, and two 2-light windows above; on the right, there is a 5-light window at ground floor and 4 and 5-light windows above. The left return wall has a blocked first floor doorway, and the right return wall has a blocked first floor window, which is said to have been used for preaching.

At the rear, notable features include a garderobe chute to the fourth bay, three mullioned windows to the third bay, and an original but altered 2-bay single storey dairy to the second bay. Inside, there are back-to-back fireplaces, with the one in the housepart featuring an inglenook bressummer, and beams in the same room displaying 16th-century-style large chamfer and tongue stops.