Lower House Farmhouse

Lower House Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 14th or 15th century, with a 16th-century cross wing, all of which has been significantly rebuilt in the mid to late 19th century. It is constructed of red brick, partly rendered, and incorporates a timber-framed core that includes cruck construction. The building has slate roofs and is arranged in an L-plan. It was originally a hall house with three framed bays, featuring a projecting gabled cross wing to the left, which also has three framed bays. The farmhouse is one storey and an attic, while the cross wing has two storeys and a gable-lit attic.

The hall range includes a central truncated brick ridge stack and a brick ridge stack along with an external brick end stack in the cross wing. The hall range features a small attic casement beneath the eaves, located off-centre to the left, and a ground-floor segmental-headed two-light wooden casement, which is off-centre to the right and was formerly a doorway, as indicated by the straight joints beneath. There is a boarded loft door in the right-hand gable end. The rear of the building has a hipped eaves dormer, two segmental-headed openings to the left (one serving as a garage and the other blocked), and various inserted 20th-century casements. The cross wing has two windows in the gable end and two- and three-light segmental-headed wooden casements. The right-hand return front features two segmental-headed two-light wooden casements on the first floor and one on the ground floor, along with a segmental-headed half-glazed four-panelled door to the left, which is sheltered by a gabled porch.

Inside, the hall range was formerly a hall house with a one-bay floored end to the left and a two- or three-bay open hall to the right. It features cruck frames with cambered collars, and the right-hand end has peg holes for former arched bracing. The roof has single purlins with curved wind braces. The left-hand ground-floor room contains a pair of deep-chamfered ceiling beams from the 14th or 15th century, which have ogee stops and rest on shaped brackets at the left-hand end. The ground-floor rear room of the cross wing has two chamfered ceiling beams and a fireplace with a roll-moulded segmental wooden lintel. There are 17th-century panelled doors and an old nail-studded boarded door leading to the first floor.