Lower Ridge Farmhouse

Lower Ridge Farmhouse is a farmhouse that has been converted into a house. It dates from the late 16th century, with extensions added in the 17th century and the eaves raised in the late 18th century, along with later additions and alterations. The structure is timber framed with plaster and painted brick infill, and painted rubblestone on the gable ends, topped with slate roofs. The original layout was a two-cell cottage with an end stack on the left, which was later extended to create a baffle-entry plan consisting of four framed bays. The eaves of the 17th-century addition were raised in the late 18th century.

The building has one storey and a gable-lit attic in the two right bays, while the left bays are two storeys high. The framing features two tall rectangular panels on the original wall-plate with later horizontal timbers, and one small rectangular panel above the 17th-century addition. The windows are all late 20th-century casements, with two on each floor of the left section and one in the right section. There is a late 19th-century porch at the junction of the two sections, which has a boarded inner door. A late 20th-century red brick axial ridge stack is located to the left of the right section, with an external stack on the left gable end of the 17th-century part.

Inside, the timber frame is exposed on the original back wall. The right ground-floor room features two chamfered spine beams with stepped stops and joists, along with an inglenook fireplace that has a moulded wooden lintel. The other two ground-floor rooms have deep-chamfered spine beams with straight-cut stops. The roof trusses were covered with plasterboard at the time of the last survey in November 1985. A prominent late 20th-century lean-to addition at the rear is not considered to have special architectural interest.