Parkinson Farmhouse

Parkinson Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse located on Bentham Main Street in High Bentham. The building features slobbered, coursed rubble with stone dressings and a slate roof. The rear of the farmhouse, which faces the street, has two storeys and two bays. On the ground floor, the left-hand bay contains a 3-light chamfered window with recessed flat-faced mullions, featuring a central 4/4 sash and outer fixed lights with six panes. The upper floor has a similar 3-light chamfered window with central sashes and outer diamond-pane leaded fixed lights. To the left of the centre, there is a single-light double chamfered window. The right-hand gable end has a ridge stack and two additional ridge stacks. The right-hand return features a single-light window on the ground floor and a chamfered single-light window on the upper floor. The south front includes a projecting wing from the late 17th or early 18th century, with an entrance in the gable end and a 20th-century porch. The left-hand bay of the house has a 3-light chamfered mullioned window with a hoodmould on the ground floor and a similar window without a hoodmould on the upper floor.