Brow Top Farmhouse

Brow Top Farmhouse is a farmhouse dated 'MGP 1699' that has undergone significant alterations and extensions in the late 18th century and 19th century. It was built for Michael and Grace Pighills (Pickles) and is constructed from coursed dressed millstone grit with a stone slate roof. The building has two storeys and consists of five bays.

On the north elevation, there are quoins and evidence of a late 18th to early 19th-century conversion to cottages, shown by three doorways and two- and four-light flat-faced mullion windows, all with flush stone surrounds. There are also other later windows, shaped kneelers, and ashlar coping.

The south elevation features three central bays that are part of the original house, complete with a continuous dripstone at the ground floor, a roundel with the date and a cherub, and double-chamfered windows with splayed mullions. The ground floor has windows with four and eleven lights, while the first floor has two, four, and two lights, although some mullions have been removed. There are two later doorways, one of which has been inserted into the eleven-light window. There are one-bay additions on both the left and right sides, with the left addition featuring a three-light flat-faced mullion window in a flush stone surround on each floor.

The west elevation includes one two-light and one single-light double-chamfered window with splayed mullions, which have been set back into the wall that was later broadened. There is a projecting single-storey outbuilding that is not of particular importance. Additionally, there is a cold store adjoining the south-east corner, which is under rising ground and has a stone floor and a double stone table. The Pighills were involved in the local wool industry.