Hawksclough Farmhouse

Hawksclough Farmhouse is a brick farmhouse built around 1700. It has a stone slate roof with two gable chimneys, one of which is shortened, and a further chimney behind the ridge. The house has a roughly L-shaped plan, with a two-storey rear extension to its left side. It is three storeys high and symmetrical, with three bays. The front features a central doorway with a gauged brick head, now with a modern glazed porch. There are two large windows on the ground floor, and two windows above them on the first floor, all with gauged segmental brick heads and altered glazing. A smaller first-floor window is positioned centrally. The second floor has oblong casement windows of three, two, and three lights, which appear to be blocked. Early in the 18th century, the house was occupied by the Burgess family, descendants of a 16th-century bailiff to the Townleys of Burnley. During times of penal laws, the house was used for Catholic Mass until the opening of St. Bede’s in 1824. The interior is not fully documented, but reportedly includes a small panelled room that may have been used as a priest’s robing room. Details of the rear of the property are unavailable.