Higher Hey Cottage Higher Hey Farmhouse

ACCRINGTON off SANDY LANE SD 72 NE 5/35 Higher Hey Farmhouse and 22.8.1966 Higher Hey Cottage - II

Farmhouse, dated 1688, extended, now 2 dwellings. Rendered rubble with exposed quoins, stone slate roof with 2 chimneys on the ridge and one at right gable. Cruciform plan, modified: 2-bay baffle-entry with front porch and rear stair turret and outshut; 3rd bay added at left end with continued outshut. Two storeys; prominent 2-storey gabled porch with Tudor-arched doorway, a datestone above lettered in relief NH AH (WH = William Halstead) HH EH W H 1688 Front windows altered but one stone mullion in 1st floor window left of porch. Rear has gabled stair turret, 1st floor window with a stone mullion left of turret, continuous outshut to the right with a very small oblong window under the eaves; otherwise, openings altered. Interior: beams set on edge; carved salt cupboard.