Halliwell Farmhouse

Halliwell Farmhouse is a hall-house, later a farmhouse and now a house, dating from the 17th century with significant alterations in the 18th century. A porch is dated 1671. The building is constructed of coursed sandstone rubble with quoins, and has a stone slate roof and a brick chimney. The plan is irregular, comprising a short, one-bay, double-depth 18th-century main range and a two-bay 17th-century crosswing at the east end. A contemporary porch projects, overlapping the main range.

The house has two storeys and a roughly symmetrical façade. A projecting, gabled porch is offset to the left of centre, featuring a fine, round-headed outer doorway with a moulded surround and imposts, a simple, square-headed inner doorway (a later replacement), a datestone lettered H L A 1671 and a six-light double-chamfered mullion-and-transom window with a cavetto-moulded hoodmould. To the right of the porch, the gable of the wing has similar mullion-and-transom windows on both floors, with ten lights at ground floor and eight above. A drip-band runs over the ground-floor window. The return wall of the wing, which steps out at midpoint, has double-chamfered mullioned windows of five and five lights at ground floor, and three and four lights above, the lower ones protected by a drip-band and the upper ones with hoodmoulds. The rear of the wing features a three-light mullioned window at ground floor, and a stair-window to the right (with the mullions now rendered on the exterior). Above the stair-window is a small two-light window under the eaves, without a mullion, with a third light blocked to the left. The 18th-century main range has a single square window on each floor, both recently fitted with stone mullions. A 20th-century addition is to the left of the windows.

The interior of the wing includes a fine segmental-arched parlour fireplace with a moulded surround, an out-of-place datestone dated R. B./ 1649 with raised lettering, quarter-round moulded beams on both floors, timber-flamed partitioning in the stairwell and chambers, and a chamber fireplace with a chamfered surround. The staircase has been altered.

The house was recorded as having six hearths in 1666. The wing was added in 1671 by Lawrence Halliwell and his wife Alice. The building represents a good example of a hall-house with a later wing added to what was likely a larger timber-framed structure, which was subsequently taken down and replaced in the 18th century. It forms a group with the barn approximately 20 metres northeast.