Description

KEIGHLEY BROW TOP ROAD
SE 03 NW Haworth
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Brow Top Farmhouse

II

Farmhouse. Dated 'MGP 1699', much altered and extended late C18 and C19. For
Michael and Grace Pighills (Pickles). Coursed dressed millstone grit. Stone
slate roof. 2 storeys, 5 bays. North elevation: Quoins. Late C18-early C19
conversion to cottages evidenced by 3 doorways and 2- and 4-light flat-faced
mullion windows, all with flush stone surrounds. Other later windows. Shaped
kneelers. Ashlar coping. South elevation: the 3 central bays comprise part of
the original house having continuous dripstone to ground floor, roundel with date
and cherub, and double-chamfered windows with splayed mullions of 4- and 11-lights
to ground floor and of 2, 4, and 2 lights to first floor, some mullions now
removed. Two later doorways, one inserted in the 11-light window. One-bay
additions to left and right, that to left with a 3-light, flat-faced mullion
window in flush stone surround to each floor. West elevation: one 2-light and one
single-light double-chamfered window with splayed mullion, now sunk in thickness
of wall broadened later. Projecting single-storey outbuilding not of particular
importance. Cold store adjoining south-east corner under rising ground has stone
floor and double stone table. The Pighills were involved in the local wool
industry.

Listing NGR: SE0402237172

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26427380

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)