Lower Cottage

Lower Cottage is a house built from hammer-dressed stone with a graduated stone slate roof. It dates from the late 17th century, with an addition marked "IWAW 1742" on the lintel, attributed to Winterbottom. The house has a single-depth plan consisting of three bays and two storeys. The first bay, from 1742, features a square-cut door surround on the right, a window on the left with a similar surround, and a three-light flat-faced stone mullion window on the first floor. Bays two and three have a seven-light double-chamfered cavetto-moulded window on the ground floor, with a 19th-century window inserted to the right. The first floor includes a nine-light double-chamfered window and a later three-light flat-faced mullion window. There are two ridge chimney stacks, and 20th-century windows have been inserted at the rear. The roof structure incorporates parts of a former cruck-framed structure.