Rough Heys Farm Cottage

OSWALDTWISTLE ROUGH HEY GATE SD 72 NE 5/91 Rough Heys Farm Cottage - GV II

Farmhouse, C17, part altered or extended in C18, now 2 dwellings. Coursed thin sandstone rubble (part rendered) with some quoins, stone slate roof with ridge chimney and chimneys on 2 gables. L-shaped plan of 3 bays with rear wing to 1st bay. Two storeys end small single-storey extension at right end. In centre a prominent 2-storey gabled porch, the upper floor overhanging slightly, has large quoins, doorway with quoins offset to right, a datestone at 1st floor above it lettered W (= James and Ellen Walmesley), I E 1706 and a stepped 3-light stone mullion window with stepped hoodmould. To left is an oblong window with 2 stone mullions and above this 2 casements with glazing bars, and a stone mullion between them; to right of porch the 3rd bay has been altered: moulded doorway next to porch, right corner of house splayed obliquely. Rear wing has tall coupled windows with chamfered heads and hoodmoulds. Interior not seen. Item shares farmyard with Rough Heys Farmhouse (q.v.). (Ainsworth Homesteads pp. 94-8).

Listing NGR: SD7519126936