Lower Strines Cottage Lower Strines Farmhouse

Lower Strines Cottage and Lower Strines Farmhouse is a house that dates from the late 16th century, with a slightly later main range built around 1600. It now serves as two separate dwellings. The building is constructed from large dressed stone and features a stone slate roof. It has a hall-and-crosswing plan with a rear baffle entry and stands two storeys tall.

The wing, which is set slightly forward from the main range, has a rebuilt west front from around 1980. This front retains double chamfered mullioned windows with arched heads and sunken spandrels, consisting of five lights. These windows have hoodmoulds with straight returns, and there is a three-light window above on the first floor. The main house has double chamfered mullioned windows on the ground floor, some of which retain ovolo moulded mullions. There is a two-light fire-window and a six-light housebody window with a king mullion, along with a similar window in the parlour. The first floor features chamfered mullioned windows, including a single light window added around 1980 and two three-light windows.

To the left of the return wall, there is a single cell extension from around 1980 that is not in sympathy with the original building. The rear includes a single light window to the left of a three-light window, and there are two former two-light chamfered windows on the first floor. The doorway at the junction with the wing has a cyma moulded surround. The wing features five-light chamfered windows with arched heads and a two-light flat faced mullioned window above on the first floor. The right-hand return wall has an extruded gable stack, and there is another stack on the ridge.

Inside, the division wall between the wing and the housebody has two doorways with roll-moulded surrounds on either side of the former dais end of the original single storey hall, the roofline of which is still visible. This end has been altered to form a smoke bay and retains its bressumer and reeded spine beams. The parlour features a fine fireplace with a basket arch, cyma moulded surround, and deeply sunken spandrels. The eastern spine beam has a groove on its soffit, suggesting that service rooms were once separated from the parlour.