Barrows Brow Cottage And Barrows Brow Farmhouse

Barrow's Brow Farmhouse and Cottage is a farmhouse, now divided into two dwellings, with an early 17th-century core encased in an early 19th-century structure. The building is constructed of red brick with a Welsh slate roof, and has two storeys and three windows to the first floor. An inserted door is within an added porch to the left of the centre, and to the right are casement windows of three and two lights, each beneath a segmental arch. A similar two-light window and an inserted part-glazed door are located on the left, serving Barrow’s Brow Cottage. Square-headed, three-light casement windows are present on the first floor. Brick end stacks are set to the side of the ridge, with a similar stack to the right of the centre. A lean-to is attached against the left return, but is not considered to be of special interest.

The interior reveals evidence of two pairs of cruck timbers, dividing the original three-cell house. The crucks to the left are roughly ogee-shaped with a collar and post to support the ridge, although the ridge piece is missing. Confused timber framing is also present within this area. The other pair of crucks are marked "11" and have been infilled with framing and brickwork that forms a reredos to an inserted brick stack; a bressumer of an earlier smoke-hood survives. Various ceiling beams are present, with one within the cottage having stopped chamfers. An original oak-mullioned two-light window has been reused within the right edge of the farmhouse. The positioning of the end stack and traces of stylobates suggest that both gables probably had cruck framework. The present rear door to the farmhouse, within a later addition, is roughly in the position of a baffle entry against the former smoke-hood.

The house has a documented history, with John Barrow recorded as having paid Hearth Tax on one chimney in 1664/6.