Hesketh Farmhouse

Hesketh Farmhouse is a farmhouse, now a house, dated 1700 but likely built earlier and extended at that time. It is constructed of brick, with some recent additions, and features a slate roof, along with some stone slates at the rear and on the outshut. The building has a T-shaped plan with a cross-wing on the right and consists of two storeys with garrets, each range having one ridge chimneystack.

There is a segmental-headed doorway to the cross-passage near the angle, which includes a plank door and a datestone above it inscribed with cursive lettering that reads: "Thomas Walton Ellin his wife and Christopher their son Ano Domi 1700." The windows are now casements with segmental heads, but there are blocked former window openings, some featuring 17th-century-style brick hoodmoulds on the left gable. The rear and side walls of the cross-wing display brick bands, and there is a blocked doorway beneath the stairlight window in the cross-wing.

Inside, the housepart in the second bay has a hearth backing onto the cross-passage, a blocked inglenook with a cambered bressumer and heck-post, and a former door to the dairy in the first bay that is now blocked. Several rooms contain beams with stopped ovolo moulding. The dog-leg staircase in the centre of the cross-wing has a string, turned balusters, and a moulded handrail with a raised grip, marked on the string with "T W E 1700." There is also a quarter-turn stair of a similar design leading from the first floor to the attic of the first bay. The door from the cross-passage to the housepart is made of heavily studded planks, likely the original entrance, while some other doors on both floors have two bolection-moulded panels and similarly-moulded diamond-shaped insets. Both hearths are fitted with brick smoke hoods. The roof of the first and second bays features two trusses made up of tie-beams, collars, and two pairs of trenched windbraced purlins, and the junction wall has a two-light unglazed brick mullion window, indicating the original gable wall.