Brown Low

Brown Low is a house with outbuildings built in 1907 for C F & L Sixsmith, designed by Charles Holden. The building is constructed from coursed and snecked gritstone rubble and features a stone slab roof with gable coping and deeply overhanging eaves, revealing shaped rafter ends. It has smooth ashlar ridge and end stacks and is laid out in a single-depth, 3-unit plan with a shallow kitchen wing at the rear. The house is two storeys high and showcases a Vernacular Revival style typical of the Pennine region.

The front of the house, facing the garden, has an irregular arrangement of three windows. At eaves level, there are 2, 3, and 4-light windows, while the ground floor features three 2-light windows, all with flush mullions. A large internal porch is located under a continuous lintel band, which includes an elliptical relieving arch with the tympanum infilled with very narrow stone courses. Inside the porch, there is a 2-light window and a planked door with strap hinges. A datestone inscribed with CF&L 1907 is also present.

On the left side of the building, the first floor features a 2-light mullioned window set between similarly sized panels that contain chequered stonework, all with a continuous sill and lintel. The first floor has a lintel band and two 2-light windows, although the mullions have been removed. The rear of the house has irregular one and 2-light mullioned windows, along with a late 20th-century stone porch. The right side of the building has one and 2-light windows.

The interior of Brown Low contains notable Arts & Crafts joinery, particularly in the doors, and features a stone and tiled surround to the fireplace on the right end. This building represents an interesting vernacular revival design by a prominent architect who, by 1907, was established in London but had roots in Bolton. Plans for the building are in the possession of the previous owner.