Lower Emmott House

Lower Emmott House is a house dating from around 1600, with alterations made in the mid-19th century. It is constructed from coursed, dressed gritstone and has a stone slate roof. The building has a T-shaped plan, featuring a two-storey, three-bay front and a lower two-storey, four-bay rear wing.

The mid-19th century front includes large groins and an Ionic open-sided porch with a plain entablature, which is offset to the left. This porch encloses a part-glazed and panelled door with an overlight, set in a moulded surround under a Tudor-arched head. The flanking windows are tall, four-pane sashes with projecting sills and plain lintels, while the first-floor windows are shorter and styled similarly. The hipped roof has shaped stone gutter brackets and corniced end stacks.

On the left side, the first bay projects forward and features a four-pane sash within a blocked square-headed, quoined opening, with a sash above that has glazing bars. The three bays to the right include a central panelled door with an overlight under a likely 19th-century Tudor-arched lintel, a 20th-century casement window on the left, and a large sash with glazing bars on the right. The first-floor windows match the style of the first bay. The left side has ashlar gable copings and two corniced ridge stacks, along with a margin-glazed, round-headed stair window at the end of the front range on the right.

The right side features a 1600 mullioned window with nine round-headed lights, cavetto-moulded surrounds, two king mullions, and a hoodmould, with matching two-light windows to the right that are partly obscured by a later addition. The first floor has three sashes with glazing bars to the left of a two-light mullioned window. The gable of the wing is roughcast but includes a three-light mullioned window under a hoodmould.

The interior has not been fully inspected but appears to be mostly from the mid to late 19th century. It includes a round-arched marble fireplace in the front-right room, a ceiling divided into three panels with decorative roses, and a stone-flagged floor lit by a 1600 window. There is also a wooden staircase with a turned newel, plain balustrade, and curved handrail. The irregularities in the masonry suggest significant rebuilding, which incorporates some walling from a former cross-wing into the current front range.