Lower Sweeney Farmhouse

Lower Sweeney Farmhouse is a farmhouse that likely dates from around 1840, although it may be built on an earlier site. It is constructed from dressed coursed sandstone blocks with painted ashlar dressings and features slate roofs with coped verges on stone kneelers. The building has an H-plan layout with a central hall range flanked by gabled cross-wings, reflecting a late 17th-century vernacular style.

The farmhouse is two storeys high and has a moulded eaves cornice. The facade consists of a 1:2:1 bay arrangement, with mid-19th century wooden mullioned and transomed windows that have moulded dripstones and metal glazing bars—two lights for the hall range and three for the cross-wings. The upper left window is an oriel, while there are rectangular chamfered slit openings in the gables. The windows on the left return, except for the lower right, are blind and painted to imitate windows.

There is a gabled porch at the angle of the left gable, which has coped verges on stone kneelers. It features an elliptical outer arch with a blank armorial shield above and a panelled inner door with latticed sidelights. The farmhouse has yellow brick ridge stacks with four attached octagonal shafts located to the left and right of the hall range and to the right gable, which extends to the rear.

Inside, the ground-floor rooms have parallel unchamfered ceiling beams, a 19th-century staircase, and plank and panelled doors. This prominently sited house is noted for being an unaltered example of the 19th-century revival of a style reminiscent of substantial 17th-century farmhouses in the region.