Lower Farmhouse

Lower Farmhouse is a farmhouse that has been converted into a house. It dates back to the 17th century, with the eaves raised in the late 18th or early 19th century, along with later additions and alterations. The building features a rendered timber frame and painted roughly coursed limestone rubble, topped with a slate roof. The original structure consists of three framed bays, with the eaves raised and a single-bay stone extension added to the left in the late 18th or early 19th century.

The farmhouse is two storeys high and has three paired late 20th-century casement windows directly below the eaves of the 17th-century part. There are contemporary casements immediately to the left and right of a late 20th-century half-glazed door, which has a gabled hood and is positioned to the left of centre. The rubblestone addition features a 20th-century casement on the first floor and a small 19th-century casement on the ground floor, along with a segmental-headed half-glazed door to the right.

A stone ridge stack, which was formerly an end stack, has a 20th-century red brick top at the junction with the rubblestone addition, which also has an integral end stack with a red brick shaft to the left. There is a large truncated external stack on the right gable end, featuring a later integral brick shaft. At the rear on the left, there is a 19th-century rubblestone lean-to dairy.

Inside, the timber frame is exposed throughout, including in the cross-walls, which retain original cills. The main ground-floor room, located to the right of the ridge stack, has a massive chamfered spine beam with ogee stops and flat heavy joists, along with a stone inglenook fireplace that has a chamfered wooden lintel. There is a straight-flight oak staircase from the 18th century against the back wall, featuring a moulded handrail and plain flat balusters leading to the first floor. The right ground-floor room, now divided by a 19th-century close-studded partition wall, also has a chamfered spine beam and heavy joists. The rubblestone addition includes an inglenook fireplace with a chamfered wooden lintel and a chamfered spine beam. Throughout the building, there are plank and muntin doors with pointed strap hinges. The queen-strut roof, which is in three bays, has two centre trusses exposed beneath the raised eaves.