Lower Oaks

Lower Oaks is a farmhouse that likely dates back to the 15th century, with extensions made around 1600 and again in 1873, as indicated by a datestone. The building is timber framed, partly constructed using cruck techniques, and features painted brick infill and cladding, topped with a machine tile roof.

Originally, it had an open hall consisting of two cruck-framed bays, with a two-bay cross-wing added to the west end around 1600. To the east, there is a two-storey, triple-gabled stone wing built in 1873. The farmhouse is one storey with an attic; most of the framing is brick clad, but three square panels from the cill to the wall-plate are exposed at the east end of the hall on the north side. The west wall of the cross-wing shows close studding.

The windows are irregularly placed, featuring two 20th-century casements to the left and a three-light fixed-light window in the centre of the hall range, with two 20th-century gabled dormers above in the roof slope. On the first floor of the cross-wing, there is one late 19th-century casement, and on the ground floor, a fixed-light window with a boarded door to the left. The entrance is through a boarded door on the south side, with a red brick axial ridge stack immediately to the left. Inside, parts of both cruck trusses are visible on the first floor. The 1873 range is not considered to have special architectural interest.