Lower Hanging Shaw

Lower Hanging Shaw is a late 18th-century laithe house that features an additional two bays added to the barn and a single cell added to the house around 1840. The building is constructed of watershot masonry and has a stone slate roof. It has a double-pile layout under a single-span roof. The house includes flat-faced mullioned windows with four lights on each floor, although it is missing two mullions, and has quoins. The original gable entry, which has composite jambs and a chamfered surround, is obscured by a later extension that features a doorway with monolithic jambs and a two-light broad flat-faced mullioned window above. There are two stacks on the ridge. To the left of the house is the barn, which has a semi-circular arched cart entry set between buttresses added around 1955, using stone from the cellar at Higher Hanging Shaw. Inside the barn, there are two tall stone pointed arches and a reused beam with two half-lap joints. This house is shown on a plan from 1808, and there is a complete set of deeds for the property, with the earliest dated 1585, suggesting it may have originally been a cruck-framed structure.