Toils Farmhouse And Attached Barn

Toils Farmhouse and the attached barn, incorrectly marked as Middle Farm on Ordnance Survey maps, date back to around 1770. The building is constructed from hammer-dressed stone with dressed quoins and features a stone slate roof. It is two storeys high, with a five-bay barn located to the left of a two-cell central baffle-entry house.

The house has a doorway with monolithic jambs and a cyma-moulded surround that rises to create a false ogee lintel. Above this doorway is a single-light window with a similar surround and a false-arched lintel. On both floors, there are three-light flat-faced mullioned windows with recessed mullions that have inner chamfers and chamfered surrounds. A central stack is offset from the ridge. The barn features a segmental-arched cart entry with skewbacks and composite jambs, and to the left, there is a mistal doorway with monolithic jambs and a chamfered surround. The left bay of the barn is now part of the house. An extension to the house on the right is designed to match the original structure, reusing the original coping and kneelers.

Inside the house, the main body features a fireplace with monolithic jambs and a segmental-arched bressumer with incised voussoirs. The spine beams and floor joists are stop-chamfered and have ogee stops. The parlour also has a similar beamed ceiling. It is noted that John Wesley stayed here on several occasions in 1776 while preaching in Bingley and Ilkley. A window previously contained an engraved piece of glass depicting Wesley and an elegy to his death, dated 1776; this glass is now preserved in Eldwick Methodist Church.

Additionally, there is an outbuilding with a reused datestone from around 1777, suggesting that the house may have been built around the same time.