Lower Farmhouse

Lower Farmhouse is a farmhouse, now a house, dated 1677, likely with an earlier core. It was altered and probably partly demolished around 1810, as indicated by the datestone, and likely extended at the rear in the mid- to late 19th century. The building is constructed of coursed and uncoursed yellow and grey sandstone rubble, with dressed Hoar Edge Grit sandstone on the center and left of the front, and has a 20th-century machine tile roof.

The structure has an irregular baffle-entry U-plan with a projecting gabled cross-wing to the left, which was probably originally H-plan with the right-hand cross-wing partly demolished around 1810. It is two storeys tall with an attic. The center and left-hand cross-wing features a chamfered plinth, and the early 19th-century eaves have carved stone brackets. There is an external stone end stack on the right, which was probably originally a ridge stack, with a 19th-century brick top stage, and an external dressed brown sandstone or siltstone lateral stack at the rear, also with a 19th-century brick top.

The front has two windows, featuring late 19th-century and mid-20th-century two- and three-light wooden and metal casements, and a 20th-century boarded door to the right. An inverted heart-shaped datestone is located in the apex of the cross-wing gable, reading "1810".

Inside, there are chamfered beams with ogee stops, and a timber-framed square-panelled cross-wall in the cross-wing. The central ground-floor room has a large open fireplace with dressed sandstone reveals, and there are three 17th-century cupboards in the wall to the left with panelled doors, one of which is dated "16:W:R:E:77". The eaves were likely raised around 1810, as evidenced by the change in masonry, and the former right-hand cross-wing was probably partly demolished at the same time, indicated by slight projections to the right with the return of the 17th-century chamfered plinth.