Lower Madely Farmhouse

Lower Madely Farmhouse is a farmhouse that has been converted into a house. It dates back to around 1500 and has undergone alterations around 1600, in the 18th century, and again in the mid-19th and mid-20th centuries. The building features a roughcast timber-frame and brick construction with machine and plain tiled roofs. It has a large rear chimney with four diagonal brick shafts and an additional stack at the left end of the ridge.

The farmhouse is two storeys high with an attic and has a main west elevation consisting of four bays. The third bay from the left is gabled. The windows are all 20th-century casements, with the ground floor featuring two multi-paned bow windows. The first floor has two large multi-paned windows, a two-light casement with a cambered head, and another two-light casement. There is also a two-light attic window with a cambered head in the gable. The main entrance, located in the second bay, has a half-glazed 20th-century door, and there is a brick porch wing with a 20th-century door to the right of the centre.

Inside, a large full cruck truss survives at the north end of the house, along with stop-chamfered main ceiling beams and a large fireplace. It is likely that the oldest part of the house at the north end is from an original cruck hall-house, which was altered around 1600 into a traditional hall and cross-wing plan. The southern end was probably added onto the cross-wing during the 18th century, and a bulge between the main storey levels of this part appears to be a decorative brick band. There is also a 19th-century wing at the north gable end, adjoining the northern end of the west elevation.