Description:This view shows the main entrance to Barnfields with the monkey puzzle tree towering over it.
Barnfields was built by John Twigg in the late eighteenth-century. Some of the stonework was said to have come from Baswich Church when it was rebuilt in the 1740s. Near to the house there was a large stone barn dating from the sixteenth century. At the northern end of the barn there was a church-shaped porch leading to a game larder.
The house was demolished in the 1970s and the site redeveloped to make way for the Wildwood housing estate. Barnfields School and playing field now occupy where there had been a field in front of the house. A Kwik Save supermarket which later became the Co-operative Supermarket was built occupying the site where the house and barns stood, Nearby the Wildwood Community Centre was built close to the monkey puzzle tree which remained as a land mark long after the house and farm buildings were demolished. It was chopped down sometime in the 1990s.