Lower Green House

A house dating from the late 17th or early 18th century, with alterations in the 19th century. Built of thin, hammer-dressed stone with a stone slate roof, the house has a hall and cross-wing plan. The cross-wing projects to both the front and rear. The south front has two bays. The first bay, part of the cross-wing, features a large, two-light sash window with a wooden lintel and a primitive hoodmould above, marking the position of an earlier, similar window. A stone tablet for a sundial sits in the gable. The return wall has chamfered mullioned windows, two lights to each floor. The second bay has a large, two-light sash window with a plain stone surround and a projecting lintel with a hoodmould. The return wall of the cross-wing is rendered, and a lateral stack has offsets. Two hoodmoulds remain; one over a modern doorway and the other over a three-light, flat-faced mullioned window. Similar three- and five-light windows are found on the first floor. The rear of the house consists of two parallel gabled ranges with gable stacks and flat-faced mullioned windows of two and three lights, also with hoodmoulds. A return wall, likely added as a kitchen, abuts the hall on the south front and has a double-chamfered mullioned window of six lights and two lights with a hoodmould. Above this is a four-light chamfered mullioned window. A stack is present on the gable of the hall range, and the doorway has monolithic jambs.

The added kitchen range has a two-light firewindow, possibly once featuring a bressumer and firehood, now replaced by a stone fireplace with a flat-arched lintel inscribed 'IW 1722', and a simple chamfered surround. Another dated fireplace, in the north chamber of the cross-wing, exhibits similar detailing, inscribed 'IWD 1707'. The dividing wall between the hall and the cross-wing retains original timbered partitioning of board and muntin type, with a depressed Tudor arched doorway near the original stair area, which is lit by open slatted partitions in two stages. The cross-wing contains two king post trusses with five 'V' struts, and a panelled soffit to the tie beam.