Lower House

SJ 40 SW CHURCH PULVERBATCH C.P. CHURCH PULVERBATCH

8/26 Lower House (formerly - listed as Lower House 29.1.52 including gate piers) GV II

Shown on O.S. map as Lower House Farmhouse. Farmhouse, now house. Early to mid-C18 appearance, incorporating C17 house, later additions and alterations. Red brick (random bond) on moulded stone plinth with plastered stone angle quoins and ashlar parapet, plain tile roofs. C18 facade to 3-bay timber framed house with 2 gabled ranges at right-angles to rear. 2 1/2 storeys; 5 bays, glazing bar sashes (now horned) with gauged heads and raised plastered keystones, moulded stone cills; attic storey lit by 3 glazing bar sashes, has richly moulded cornice marking position of former eaves (interrupted under windows); central entrance 6-panel door (top panels glazed) under canopied hood supported on scrolled cast-iron brackets; prominent external stepped end stack to left and integral end stack to right. Salop Fire Insurance Plate numbered 5335 over central first-floor window. Interior: staircase to central hall with elegant turned balusters much repaired in late C20; C17 panelling (probably not in situ) on right wall of hall; principal rafters and struts of roof of C17 house exposed in attic. B.o.E., p.100.

Listing NGR: SJ4305802887