Percy Rigg Farmhouse And Attached Cowhouse Range

Percy Rigg Farmhouse and the attached cowhouse range are likely from around 1700, with significant alterations made in 1783 for Charles Turner, as indicated by a datestone. The cowhouse range dates from the late 18th century to the early 19th century. The buildings are constructed of rubblestone brought to course, with pantile roofs featuring stone coping and ridges.

The farmhouse is a two-storey, three-bay structure, with a lower cowhouse that has a loft above it. Additional cowhouse ranges have been added to the front, creating a courtyard on the left side. On the garden elevation, the farmhouse has a plinth and a blocked doorway to the right of the first bay. There is a doorway on the left of the third bay with a 20th-century board door. The windows are tripartite sash types with projecting sills, and there is an inserted 20th-century window to the left of the right bay. The ground-floor openings feature herringbone-tooled lintels with raised keystones, including one over the dated doorway. The eaves have a band, and there are shaped kneelers. Chimney stacks are located at the ends and between the right bays.

The left cowhouse is partially hidden by a later courtyard, which is lower and made of coursed rubble, featuring a plinth, quoins, an eaves band, and various blocked and later openings. Its hipped roof has some pantiles replaced with corrugated asbestos. At the rear, the house has a 20th-century gabled brick porch and various 19th and 20th-century windows with herringbone-tooled sills and lintels, although a 12-pane side-sliding sash window remains on the first floor in the center. The eaves band and shaped kneelers are also present here. The cowhouse has a board door to the left and an inserted double door on the right, with a blocked doorway to its right, as well as slit vents and a blocked pitching hole on the left gable.

Charles Turner, who commissioned the construction or remodeling of this house, was known as an agricultural improver and was responsible for building or rebuilding several farmhouses on the Kildale Estate.