Hoyles Farmhouse

Hoyles Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building, dated 1620 and 1636. It is constructed of coursed squared gritstone with a stone slate roof and features an L-shaped former baffle-entry plan, including a gabled crosswing to the right that projects to the rear. There is a later lean-to addition at the rear of the left side of the crosswing. The farmhouse has two storeys and two windows on the first floor, with large quoins.

The entrance is a part-glazed door to the left, framed by stop-chamfered quoined reveals and a flat-pointed lintel inscribed with 'RAB BUILD THIS HOUSE' along with initials and other marks. To the left of the crosswing, there is an inserted door in a plain ashlar surround. The windows throughout are cavetto-moulded mullions, with original vertical iron bars on all but the opening lights. The main range has a five-light window on the ground floor and a four-light window above it, while the wing features a four-light window with a three-light window above. The building has moulded kneelers and gable copings, and a corniced ashlar end stack to the left. The external lateral stack to the right of the crosswing has a renewed shaft.

At the rear, the crosswing gable apex includes a moulded plinth for two diagonal-set chimney shafts, both of which have been removed. On the right return, there is a door in a chamfered quoined surround with an arched lintel, along with two-light and three-light windows similar to those at the front. The left return has cavetto-moulded mullion windows that are truncated by a later outshut. Inside, the position of the former smokehood is indicated by a spliced spine beam in the left ground floor room.