Brown Howe Farmhouse With Adjoining Barn And Byres

Brown Howe is a farmhouse that includes an adjoining barn and byres, likely built in three phases, with the barn predating the house. A date of 1704 is found on a door lintel that has been reused internally over a former fireplace. The Royal Commission on Historical Monuments recorded a date of 1673 on a fixed bedstead, which has since been removed. There have been later alterations and additions, including an early 20th-century wing at the rear.

The farmhouse is constructed from white-washed coursed, squared rubble, while the barn and byres are made of snecked rubble. The barn features quoins at both ends, while the house and byres only have quoins on the right-hand ends. The building is two storeys tall, with the byres being lower. It has a total of nine bays arranged in a 3:3:3 pattern. The house features a gabled central porch with a plank inner door, a single-light window to the left, and a former two-light window, now a Yorkshire sash, to the right on each floor, all set in stone surrounds. There are brick chimneys at each end.

The adjoining byres on the right have two part-blocked doors with inserted windows on the ground floor, and stone steps leading up to a door that is now part-blocked with an inserted window, flanked by casement windows. The threshing barn on the left has a central wagon door. Inside the house, there are chamfered beams, an 18th-century bracketed fireplace in the front ground floor, and a curved stone stair at the rear. The buildings adjoining either end are not of interest.