Lower House

Lower House is a farmhouse, now a house, dating from the late 15th century. It has undergone remodelling in the early 17th century, with later additions and alterations. The structure is timber-framed with rendered and painted brick infill on a rendered rubblestone plinth. Painted uncoursed limestone rubble rebuilding and additions are also present, topped with a plain tile roof.

The original design was likely an open-hall house of two framed bays aligned north-south, floored over and extended west in the early 17th century with a third bay. A further bay was added to the south of the original range in the late 17th century, creating a T-shape. A later two-storey gabled roughcast addition sits in the rear angle.

The right wall of the original range features square framing panels, three from sill to wall-plate, with the north bay roughcast. The early 17th-century range has four square panels from sill to wall-plate, with long straight tension braces to the gable end, some renewed at ground floor level. Three 19th-century cast-iron casements are positioned in the framing panels directly below the eaves of the early 17th-century part, with similar but larger casements to either side of a 20th-century plank door, which is set under a contemporary gabled porch to the left. 20th-century casements are on the first floor to the right, one directly above the other, in the angle with the late 17th-century gabled rubblestone addition, which has a 20th-century casement to each floor.

An integral rubblestone end stack to the north gable end of the original range has a 20th-century brown brick shaft; a red brick ridge stack is visible on the rear gabled range.

The interior retains exposed timber framing throughout, including square panels and occasional close studding to internal walls. The right ground-floor room of the early 17th-century range features two chamfered spine beams with stepped ogee stops, and a similar stop to the chamfered wooden lintel of a stone inglenook fireplace set into the back wall. The left room also has two deep-chamfered spine beams. The back room of the original range also has a chamfered spine beam with stepped ogee stops, and a large open fireplace with a plain wooden lintel. The original range has collar and tie beam roof trusses with v-struts from collar to centre and to the former south gable end, with raking struts from tie beams to principal rafters to the north gable end. Smoke blackening visible in the roof space to the principal rafters and ridge piece indicates it was originally open to the roof. The end stack is a later addition, as an original north-end truss remains visible behind the rubblestone. The late 17th-century addition to the south is clearly defined. A double-purlin roof, in three bays to the early 17th-century addition (with the two west bays wider), has collar and tie beam trusses. A 20th-century lean-to addition to the north gable end of the original range is not considered of special architectural interest.