Lower Lime House

Lower Lime House is a 17th-century house with rendered walls and a stone slate roof. It has two storeys and a three-room plan, featuring a passage that runs between the centre and right rooms. There is a two-storey wing added to the rear of the centre room, along with an outshut extension at the back of the left room. The original doorway into the passage is now partially blocked. On the right side at ground level, there is one 2-light window and one 3-light window, while the first floor has one 4-light window and one 3-light window. On the left side, there is a 6-light window on each floor, and to the left of these, there is a later stone doorway with a gabled porch. Further to the left, there are a 6-light window on the ground floor and a 5-light window on the first floor. All windows are double-chamfered, although a few mullions have been removed. The gable copings are chamfered with ball finials on moulded kneelers, and there are gable stacks, including one to the left of the passage. At the rear, the doorway in the passage dates from the 19th century, and there are several altered double-chamfered windows in the rear wing. The left gable features a round-arched fire window on the first floor.

Inside, the house has stop-chamfered beams and joists in all three rooms. The cross-beams form the passage, with the one on the right side being grooved, possibly for a partition. The centre room has a good fireplace with a moulded surround and a Tudor arch with sunken spandrels. There is a rough-hewn arched fireplace at the back of the rear wing and a small arched fireplace in the first-floor room to the left. The outshut extension has a vaulted ceiling, and the roof features king-post trusses, one of which has diagonal studding.