Higher Underbank House

Higher Underbank House is a house built around 1770, constructed from hammer-dressed stone with ashlar dressings and a stone slate roof. The building has two storeys and an attic, featuring a double-depth layout. It displays projecting rusticated quoins, a plinth, a band, and an eaves cornice that forms a stone gutter. The facade is symmetrical with three bays. The doorway features a shouldered architrave, a pulvinated frieze, and a triangular pediment above a six-panelled door. Above the door is a single sashed light. On either side of the entrance are five-light double chamfered mullioned windows on both floors, with some lights retaining small leaded panes.

The left return wall has four-light chamfered mullioned windows on each floor and a simple Venetian window with an impost and a false expressed keystone. The rear of the house includes a cross window that lights the staircase and a first-floor taking-in door with tie-stone jambs; the lintel bears an unusual relief inscription, possibly a vernacular version of the Greek for "Jesus Christ." The right return wall features a doorway with monolithic jambs and chamfered mullioned windows on either side, which were formerly two lights and three lights, with one five-light window above on the first floor. There is also a Venetian window in the attic. The gable is coped with kneelers and stacks. The interior has not been inspected. The house presents an interesting mix of 'polite' and vernacular architectural features and is similar in design to Horsfall House on Horsfall Street in Todmorden, which is dated 1777.