Lowside Farmhouse

Lowside Farmhouse, now a private house, dates to the 17th and 18th centuries. It is accompanied by attached farm buildings. The farmhouse is constructed of sandstone rubble with quoins, ashlar and brick dressings, and a rubble plinth. The roof is pantiled with a stone ridge. The main section of the farmhouse is two storeys and five bays. To the left is a two-storey, four-bay section, and to the right is a one-storey, two-bay section which forms the attached farm buildings. The farmhouse has a renewed partly-glazed front door, flanked by renewed sixteen-pane sash windows with projecting stone sills and flat stone lintels. Four similar windows are in the four right bays of the farmhouse. A first-bay window opening is empty. Stone steps lead to a boarded loft door on the left side. Three ridge chimneys are present; two square stone chimneys are at the left end, and one corniced brick chimney is between the third and fourth bays, with a further corniced brick chimney at the right end.

The late 18th-century farm buildings on the left have boarded vehicle doors under a wood lintel in the first wide bay and a boarded door at the right end. A central four-pane light is set in a brick jamb under a flat stone lintel, with a projecting stone sill. There are also three loft openings, two of which are partly glazed. The right extension has two hit-and-miss openings set under a glazed panel.