Lambley Farmhouse And Adjacent Outbuildings

Lambley Farmhouse and the adjacent outbuildings date from the 16th century or early 17th century, possibly incorporating some medieval materials. An outshut was added in the 18th century, and the facade was remodeled in the late 18th or early 19th century, with further alterations in the late 19th and 20th centuries. The outbuildings are from the late 16th or early 17th century and have been altered. The buildings are constructed from squared stone, which has been re-used from the medieval priory, with rubble dressings and slate roofs.

The farmhouse is two storeys high with five symmetrical bays. The central entrance features a renewed door with a latticed overlight, flanked by 20th-century margined sash windows. On the first floor, there are five 20th-century sash windows set in the original openings. The gables are coped, with a brick stack at the left end and a stone stack at the right end.

To the right are the lower outbuildings, which are divided into two sections. The first part is two storeys with two irregular bays, featuring a 20th-century window alongside a small 17th-century chamfered window to the left. The first floor has two 20th-century sashes and a small 17th-century window to the left. The second part is also two storeys but has one wide bay, with a central boarded door that has a truncated triangular head and heavy dressings, likely re-set. Above and to the left is a boarded pitching door, and beneath the eaves is a long line of pigeon holes with an alighting band beneath. The left return of the outbuilding shows re-used medieval voussoirs.

On the rear elevation, the left outbuilding has a boarded door in a 17th-century chamfered surround. Inside the eastern outbuilding, the internal west wall has a blocked ogee-headed niche and corbels above that support a fireplace, which has been later cut through to form a doorway. The interior of the farmhouse features one 18th-century fireplace with a chamfered surround.

The site of the medieval Lambley priory, a Benedictine nunnery, is believed to be in the field south of the farm, with various architectural fragments found in the garden or re-used in the house and farm buildings. The current farmhouse has walls over a metre thick, which may date back to the medieval period. The two sections of the outbuilding to the east represent later dwellings of bastle-house type, with the second section largely rebuilt.