Lower Horse Wood

Lower Horse Wood is a house dated and initialled 1689. It is constructed of large dressed stone to the front, with watershot stone to the rear, and has a stone slate roof. The building is a two-story, two-cell house. It has a weathered plinth, quoins, and a continuous string course that is interrupted on the south front by decorative label stops above each window. The south front features double-chamfered mullioned windows on the ground floor and chamfered mullioned windows on the first floor. The ground floor windows comprise a two-light fire-window, a seven-light housebody window with a king mullion (three plus four) missing one mullion, and a four-light window to the parlour also lacking one mullion. The first floor has three three-light windows; that to the parlour chamber retains its mullions, while the others have been removed. The gables are coped with kneelers and there are no external chimney stacks. A gable-entry doorway is present on the left hand return wall, featuring a depressed Tudor lintel, sunken spandrels, composite jambs, and a stop-chamfered surround. This doorway is protected by a contemporary gabled open porch of one and a half storeys. The porch has a plinth, a doorway with a straight lintel formed of joggled stones with a cyma moulded surround. Above the door, stonework jetties out in a timber-framed fashion, similar to porches on houses in Lancashire at Barrowford. Set within a cyma moulded recess is a decorative inscribed tablet, the decoration of which, including the roundels, is similar in character to the rightmost label stop. The porch has a coped gable with kneelers identical to those on the house. The right hand jamb of the porch is scratched with the date 1757. The rear elevation has chamfered mullioned windows with almost square surrounds of early 19th century character, arranged in two bays of five-light windows to each floor. The interior of the housebody retains a large bressumer, and the parlour has reeded spine beams with run-out stops.