Dean Fields Farmhouse

Dean Fields Farmhouse is a house with two cottages attached, now combined into a single dwelling. The core of the house dates from the mid-to-late 17th century, with an early 18th-century porch addition, a cottage dated 1691, and another early 18th-century cottage that has been altered in the 19th century. The structure is built of coursed millstone grit with stone slate roofing.

The house has a baffle-entry plan and five first-floor windows. It features quoins, a chamfered plinth, and a central gabled porch with shaped kneelers and ashlar coping. A doorway on the porch’s left return has a chamfered, quoined surround and an ogee-moulded lintel inscribed with 'PSH 1722' and scrolls. The inner doorway to the house has a similar chamfered, quoined surround and a deep lintel. The windows are double-chamfered mullion windows: to the left of the door is a window of three lights, with mullions removed; to the far left, a four-light window with a king mullion; to the right of the door, a seven-light window, now divided into three, with king mullions; and to the far right, a four-light window, now divided into two, also with king mullions. A continuous drip mould is present. The first-floor windows include a seven-light window, now six, with king mullions; a three-light window with mullions removed; a two-light window; and a further two-light window. Shaped kneelers and coping are visible on the right gable, and there are two corniced stacks on the ridge and right end.

The cottage on the left is set back and has one first-floor window. Quoins are present on its left side. A doorway to the left has a quoined surround, inscribed with 'AM AR PSH'. It features double-chamfered mullion windows – one of six lights with a king mullion to the right of the door, and another of nine lights with two king mullions above. An end stack is visible on the left. The cottage to the far left has two later first-floor windows, and quoins on its left side. Doorways on either side have chamfered, quoined surrounds, although the doorway on the right is now a window. Between the doorways, on both floors, is a two-light flat-faced mullion window with lintel and cill, and to the left on the first floor, a 20th-century window with a stone lintel. It has a shaped kneeler and coping to the left gable.

The rear of the property has a lower roofline than the front. The house side features a blocked, quoined doorway with a double-chamfered mullion fire-window (mullion removed) to the left, followed by a chamfered, round-arched light, and a two-light double-chamfered mullion window (mullion removed) to its right. A blocked taking-in door, now a window, is above.

Inside the house, the housebody has a bressummer for a smokehood, chamfered spine-beams with run-out stops, and on the left, a Tudor-arched, chamfered, quoined doorway. A right-hand room contains a fireplace with a stone newel stair beside it. The cottage on the left has a large fireplace with an incised lintel. The initials PSH, AM, and AR stand for Peter and Sarah Heaton, Ann Midgely (Sarah's mother), and Ann Redman (Sarah's sister), respectively. The property descended from the Midgely family to Sarah Heaton through her sister.