Lower Cockham Farmhouse And Attached Barn

Lower Cockham Farmhouse and the attached barn date back to 1717, as indicated by the lintel of a former doorway in the south gable wall, although the farmhouse likely incorporates elements from an earlier structure. The farmhouse is built of sandstone rubble with quoins and features a stone slate roof, which may have been raised at the eaves. It has chimney stacks on each original side wall and a single-depth, two-bay plan with a single-storey outshut under a catslide roof on the west side. The building stands two storeys high, with the original doorway on the right side of the south gable wall now altered into a window. This wall also has six altered or inserted windows and another doorway leading into the outshut on the left. The right return wall has a single round-headed light on the first floor but is mostly hidden by the attached barn. The north gable wall features a 16-light double-chamfered mullion and transom window at ground level, with a smaller 3-light chamfered mullion window above it. A single-storey extension covers the right side of this wall. Inside, each ground floor bay has a very large chamfered beam, while the first floor has smaller beams above these, which tie to roof trusses that appear to be later additions and are mostly concealed. The barn is a four-bay structure with a two-bay, two-storey continuation, built of watershot coursed sandstone with a stone slate roof. It has a front outshut that serves as a dairy at the rear of the house and features opposed segmental-headed wagon entrances with massive slab jambs. The stepped-out continuation of the barn includes three doorways with rectangular jambs and lintels.