Lower House Farmhouse

Lower House Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the late 16th century, with alterations made in the mid-19th century. It is timber-framed, mostly covered in roughcast, and stands on a stone rubble plinth. The roof is made of clay plain tiles and features gabled ends with shaped bargeboards. There are stone axial and lateral stacks with red brick shafts.

The building has a T-shaped plan, consisting of a main east-west range with a central lobby entrance next to an axial stack that has back-to-back fireplaces. The left (west) end has a cross-wing with a large room at the front, heated by a lateral stack, and a smaller room at the back that contains a winder staircase in the corner. The bay to the right (east) of the axial stack in the main range was rebuilt in the 19th century.

The farmhouse is two storeys high with an attic. The south front is asymmetrical, featuring a 1:3 window arrangement. The gabled cross-wing on the left has a jettied first floor with ball-shaped pendants at the ends. The windows are 19th-century casements with two, three, and four lights, transoms, glazing bars, and some leaded panes. There is a doorway to the right of centre with a ledged door and an open porch that has a gabled canopy. At the rear, the timber frame is exposed, and the gabled cross-wing on the right has trellis-framing in the gable. A large stone lateral stack is located on the west side.

Inside, the farmhouse features exposed wall-framing and chamfered and ovolo-moulded ceiling beams with stops, as well as chamfered wall-posts with shaped jowls. The Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (RCHME) records include a battened door with ornamental strap hinges, another door made from late 16th or early 17th-century panelling, a winder staircase that is probably ancient, and a queen-post roof over the west wing.