Low Cote

Low Cote is a house dated 1631. It is constructed of large dressed stone with a stone slate roof. The building is two storeys high with a single-storey aisle to the rear. It has a three-room plan and a two-storey gabled porch. The corners are emphasised by quoins. The windows are double-chamfered mullioned without hoodmoulds. There is a two-light window, likely a fire-window, followed by a three-light window with a three-light window above to the first floor. The main body of the house has a four-light window and a two-light fire-window, with a three-light window to the first floor. The porch projects forward and features finely carved detail. A cyma moulded string runs along the building. The main doorway has a Tudor arched lintel with a richly moulded surround, with the spandrels inscribed “IMH” and “1631”. The inner doorway is also Tudor arched with sunken spandrels. The porch chamber has a window of three arch-headed lights with a hoodmould and initialled and dated label stops, "IH" and "1631”. There are holes above the label stops, indicating a former columbarium. The front has a coped gable with kneelers and a finial at the apex. The return walls feature windows of two arch-headed lights, and projecting water chutes of octagonal section, the front being carved with a star. Immediately to the right of the porch is a single arched light. Two inserted doorways with monolithic jambs are to the left of the three-light window with a six-light window above to the first floor. The left-hand return wall has a doorway with tie-stone jambs to the rear aisle. The rear is constructed with hammer-dressed stone, with dressed quoins. It has two two-light windows and a three-light window to the first floor; the aisle breaks forward and has three two-light single chamfered windows. The right-hand return wall has a coped gable with kneelers and a steeper roof pitch. Attached is a single-storey building with a chamfered mullioned window of four lights to the front and two lights to the rear, and it may have been a former loom shop. There are two stacks to the ridge.

The interior features a wide through passage, lit by a single arched light to the right of the porch. A Tudor arched doorway with a chamfered surround leads from the passage to the service end, which contains a large chamfered spine beam with finely reeded floor joists. The former parlour also has a chamfered spine beam. The low attached building has a fish-bone king post roof.