Swarth Gill

This is a farmhouse with an attached cottage, now combined into a single dwelling. It was likely built in the late 17th century and expanded in the early 18th century, with a datestone indicating 1712. The farmhouse is constructed of roughly-coursed rubble stone with quoins, and has a stone slate roof. It has a T-shaped plan, consisting of a single-depth main range of two units running east-west and facing south, with a rear outshot in the center of the two-unit portion.

The exterior features three stories (originally two) with two windows per story. Stone slate drip-courses are above the ground and first floors. The two-unit section has a gabled porch in the center, featuring a datestone with the initials "H / I I / 1712," identifying John and Isabell Haygarth. This porch has a square-headed inner doorway with a studded oak door, an altered window to the left, and the remains of a fire window to its left. A four-light double-chamfered stone mullion window is on the right. The first floor has a restored or 20th-century three-light window to the left, the remains of a two-light window to the left of that, and a four-light window similar to the one on the ground floor. The second floor has two small, square, blocked windows. The section to the left has a pitched stone slate canopy over a doorway with a sloped lintel and an old studded oak door, an altered three-light window to its left, a two-light window above the porch, an altered or restored three-light window, and a blocked two-light window on the second floor. A chimney corbelled from the first floor is on the left gable, with a square ridge chimney at the junction of the two sections and a gable chimney to the right. The left gable wall incorporates three courses of through-stones. The rear elevation has small fire windows in line with the ridge chimney at ground and first floor levels. It also features a full-height outshut with a catslide roof, including two two-light mullioned windows in its side wall.

The interior of the left unit features a large lateral beam. The two-unit portion contains an inserted full-height stone partition wall immediately to the left of the doorway, and an original muntin-and-rail panelled partition to the parlor on the right. The parlor has two axial beams, an internal chimney over a large rectangular stone fireplace with a corbelled lintel and chamfered surround, and a spice cupboard to the right, featuring butterfly hinges and raised lettering matching that on the porch. The chamber above the parlor has a chamfered lateral beam with two sets of chamfered secondary beams and a built-in spice cupboard with butterfly hinges and a carved panel with raised lettering "IHIH / 1712." The roof has two principal rafter trusses, one with a stone partition wall immediately west of it.

The building was once the home of John Haygarth (1677-1757) and his wife Isabell. It forms a group with a barn located approximately 30 meters northeast.