Lower Burgh Hall

Lower Burgh Hall is a timber-framed farmhouse dating from the early 17th century or earlier. It features braced box-frame construction set on a high stone plinth, with some sections having rendered infill and others clad in brick. The roof is covered with stone slates and includes a chimney on the ridge, one on the left side wall, and an external stone chimney on the right side wall. The building has a three-bay baffle-entry plan, with the first and third bays designed as projecting crosswings. There is a projecting stair turret at the rear of the second bay and a two-storey outshut from the 19th century attached to the second and third bays.

The farmhouse stands two storeys tall, with the projecting gables of the wings made of brick and featuring 19th-century windows. The central bay is timber-framed but mostly concealed by render. A single-storey stone porch with a later lean-to roof is located at the angle of the right wing, showcasing a moulded segmental-headed opening, a moulded band following the voussoirs, a corbelled head, and a frieze with a circular chamfered recess flanked by two blank shields. Above the porch, there is a wooden mullion window that has been blocked. The return wall of the right wing displays a dressed stone chimney stack and exposed timber framing, along with two wooden mullion windows. The stair turret at the rear also features similar timber framing.

Inside, the hall part has arch-bracing to the tie-beams. A large stone chimney stack, likely added after the original construction to replace an earlier smoke hood, includes large square moulded stone fireplaces in the first-floor chambers. Modern fireplaces on the ground floor may conceal earlier hearths in the second and third bays. The beams on the ground floor of all three bays are rounded with fillet and stops. The rear stair turret contains a first-floor garderobe chamber with a chute to drain, which is quite unusual for houses of this size and date.