Low Harperley Farmhouse

Low Harperley Farmhouse, originally known as Harperley Hall, is a manor house that has been converted into a farmhouse. It dates from the 16th and 17th centuries, likely incorporating an earlier structure, with alterations and additions made in the 18th century. The building is constructed of sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and quoins, and features a stone-flagged roof that has been partly renewed. It has yellow brick chimneys and a red brick external stack on the left return gable. The farmhouse is designed in an H-plan, consisting of two storeys with three wide bays and a one-storey, one-bay extension on the left, along with a rear right extension behind a barn to the north.

The left extension has a boarded door set in irregular-block jambs beneath an elliptical stone lintel, while there is a blocked door to the left of the central bay. The outer bays project under catslide roofs. The left extension is mostly blank except for the door and features three irregular rows of throughstones. The stone-mullioned windows vary in the number of lights and have elliptical heads, chamfered reveals, and label moulds. The right wing includes square-headed double-chamfered two-light casements, and there are some blocked windows in the central bay. The steeply-pitched roof has four ridge chimneys, with the left one being an external stack that has a side arch on its stone lower part with offsets. Above the door, there is a date panel incised with SC MDC 1765. The rear elevation displays a date panel SC 1762 over the north extension, along with the arms of the Cradock family above the central bay.

Inside, the left extension features a front passage leading to a store room with a fire hood and a first-floor gallery. The left wing contains a low-segmental-headed stone chimney arch and stop-chamfered beams and joists, along with an oak-boarded screen. The screen passage has a shouldered stone arch at the rear leading to the central bay, which opens onto a rounded corner that may have been the location of a former stair. The interior includes many mid-18th century panelled doors and a cupboard with 17th-century style panelling in the first-floor central room. There is an enclosed stair at the rear of the south wing and at the front of the right wing. Stone-flagged floors are present in the storage room of the left extension and in the pantry of the central bay.