Lower Cottage

Lower Cottage is a house with a late 15th-century core, a 17th-century main range, and 20th-century alterations. It features a painted timber frame with painted brick and rendered infill, along with brick and stone rubble. The roof is covered with plain tiles, and there is a projecting stone stack with brick upper stages and a stone bread oven on the side. The building has an L-shaped plan consisting of a three-bay main range and a two-bay cross wing.

The exterior is two stories high with a single-story attic. Most windows are 20th-century casements with leaded lights. The west front of the main range has square framing that is two panels high, with three 20th-century casements. The ground floor has an underbuilt frame with 20th-century brick and windows on either side of a tiled enclosed porch.

On the left (north) return side, the main range gable features square framing that is four panels high on a brick plinth, with a tension brace covered by a brick stack in the center. It has an end-truss with a straight tie beam, collar, and vertical struts. The cross wing to the left has square framing that is three panels high on a stone rubble plinth, with a swept tension brace. There are three inserted windows and an entrance door with a tiled gabled porch, along with two 19th-century dormers.

The east gable of the cross wing has a cruck frame at the first floor, underbuilt with 19th-century brick. The cruck blades are truncated above the upper collar, with twin restored struts framing a two-light window, and three studs to the tie beam, with all horizontal members lapped and notch jointed to the cruck blades. The east wall of the main range has square framing that is four panels high, underbuilt in brick only in the south bay, and is covered by the cross wing on the right. The south sides of both wings have been rebuilt in 20th-century brickwork.

Inside, the building features a single trenched-purlin roof and deep chamfered cross bridging beams in the south bay of the main range, with double bridging beams in the north bay and in the cruck-framed bays.