Middle Birks Farmhouse

Middle Birks Farmhouse is a farmhouse dated 1633, with a gabled entrance porch added in 1697 and later alterations from the 19th and 20th centuries. The building is constructed of slobbered rubble and squared rubble, with stone dressings and a roof made of stone slate and slate. It has two storeys and four bays. The left-hand bay is a later addition and features a central waggon entrance to a cartshed, with two leaf plank doors.

The central two-storey gabled entrance porch has an entrance located to the right of the centre, framed by a moulded chamfered surround and a decorated lintel. Above the lintel is a datestone inscribed with "N / E C" (for Edward and Catherine Nowell). A hoodmould extends over the lintel and datestone, continuing over a single-light window with a moulded chamfered lintel on either side of the entrance. The left-hand return of the porch has a two-light chamfered window with a hoodmould, while the right-hand return features a single-light chamfered window.

The two right-hand bays include a 20th-century ground floor window and entrance, as well as a former two-light chamfered mullioned window, although the mullion is now missing. The upper floor has a single-light window in the left-hand bay, with sashes and glazing bars; a three-light chamfered window with cavetto mullions and a stepped central light, along with a hoodmould above the porch; a former three-light chamfered window with cavetto mullions, where the right-hand mullion is missing; and a stepped three-light chamfered window with ovolo mullions and a stepped hoodmould. The upper floor also features 20th-century casements and fixed lights, with eaves mullions. The porch has gable coping and kneelers, and there are ridge stacks on the left-hand projecting gable end and right-hand side, with a 19th-century stack at the left-hand angle of the porch.

At the rear, there is a former fire window, a single light with a chamfered surround and a slate dripstone. Inside, the former entrance within the porch has "1633" inscribed on the plaster coating of the lintel. Reused chamfered beams in the former parlour may date from the late 16th or early 17th century. The bathroom above the porch features two tiers of plaster panelling in bolection moulding and a 17th-century frieze of festoons. The attic contains remnants of a timber fire hood.