Lower Hey House And 3 Attached Cottages

Lower Hey House and three attached cottages date from the early to mid 17th century, with additional cottages added in the late 18th century. The front and left side of the house feature finely dressed stone, while the rear and the cottages are made from hammer-dressed stone. The building has a two-room plan with an end through-passage, and it may originally have had a three-room layout with the service end rebuilt. All windows are double chamfered mullioned windows, including a five-light window and a two-light fire-window in the house. A string course runs above the ground floor windows, and the first floor has two four-light windows.

The doorway is located within the cottage range, which projects forward and features an outer porch resembling the inner doorway, complete with a stop-chamfered surround. The two-storey single-cell cottages have a central cottage with two-light windows that have projecting sills, flanked by three-light thin flat-faced mullioned windows on both floors. Each cottage has a doorway with monolithic jambs, and there are three stacks for the cottages and two for the house.

Inside the house, there are chamfered joists and spine beams with scarf joints, indicating a former bressumer in the housebody. The former parlour includes a fireplace with a straight lintel and a broad chamfered surround, and one spine beam has a groove on its underside for a panelled screen that divided one-third of the room to the rear. The roof features king-post trusses.