Lower Penn Farmhouse

Lower Penn Farmhouse is a farmhouse, now a house, that dates back to the 16th or 17th century. It was remodeled and extended in the early 18th century in at least two phases and was restored in the 1980s. The building features red brick in Flemish bond, which replaced earlier timber framing, and has plain tile roofs with brick ridge stacks. The farmhouse has an L-shaped plan, with the main house aligned north/south facing east, a service wing on the same alignment to the north, and a southern cross wing that projects to the west.

The main house is two storeys and an attic, with a 2:3 window arrangement. It has 20th-century glazing bar casements set within 18th-century openings that have segmental heads and dripstone bands. The central entrance features a 20th-century door within an 18th-century opening, topped with a segmental head, and is accompanied by a 20th-century rustic porch.

The service wing consists of two parts: a two-storey left-hand bay and a single-storey right-hand bay, both featuring a dentilled eaves band and 20th-century glazing bar casements. The left-hand bay has a central 20th-century glazed door and a boarded first-floor door to the right, which is accessed by a flight of brick and stone steps. The ground floor of the left-hand bay is protected by a lean-to, open-fronted porch.

At the rear, the main house is on the right and the service wing is on the left. The main house has two gables, with the crosswing on the right projecting forward. It is also two storeys and an attic, with a roughly 2:1 bay arrangement, primarily featuring 20th-century casements in 18th-century openings with segmental heads. There is a mid-19th-century bay window on the ground floor of the crosswing that contains trench casements, as well as an early 20th-century stair window on the right side of the main house. The service wing has a lean-to dairy and a conservatory attached to the rear.

Inside, there is an early 18th-century newel staircase with turned balusters and a 17th-century dog leg staircase with splat balusters. Although much of the timberwork was replaced in the late 20th century, the original design was closely followed. The ceilings feature chamfered and stopped beams, and one timber cross frame is exposed, which has square panels and a queen strut roof truss.