Low Bracken Hill

Low Bracken Hill is a house dated 1636 and initialed "IE". It is constructed of thin coursed rubble with dressed quoins and a brown-slate roof from Burlington, Cumbria. The building is two storeys high and has a three-cell, direct-entry, linear plan, with a single-storey rear aisle or outshut that contains a dairy and a service room.

On the ground floor, there are three windows. The windows in the housebody and parlour are double-chamfered mullioned, while those in the service end and on the first floor are double-chamfered with almost square reveals. The first cell, which is the service end, features a four-light window and an inserted doorway with tie-stone jambs that is blocked. The second cell has a doorway that provides direct entry to the housebody, with composite jambs, a Tudor-arched lintel that bears the date inscription, and a chamfered surround. It also has a four-light window with a hoodmould that has straight returns. The third cell has a four-light window with a hoodmould, although all three windows lack two mullions.

On the first floor, there are four windows; three of these were originally three-light windows but now have lowered sills and a new central mullion that forms two lights. The window in the third cell, which is the parlour chamber, has been altered from a four-light window to two lights. The gables are coped and feature kneelers, with a stack on the left gable and another at the junction of the second and third cells. The rear of the house has a 19th-century doorway with monolithic jambs to the left of a two-light window that lacks a mullion.

Inside, all ground-floor rooms have stop-chamfered spine beams. The beams in the housebody have scarf joints, indicating the presence of a former bressumer. The aisle features a tie-beam and principal rafter.