Lower Temple Laugherne

Lower Temple Laugherne is a house built around 1680, constructed of Flemish and Flemish stretcher bond red brick. It features a steeply pitched machine tile hipped roof with deep eaves supported by moulded brackets. The house has two brick axial stacks on the southeast side of the ridge.

The layout consists of a three-room plan, with the central room serving as a hall and the northeast room heated by back-to-back fireplaces in the axial stack. The southwest room is heated from a corner fireplace in the same stack and has a cellar beneath it. There are long attic chambers over the central and southwest rooms, and a smaller attic chamber over the northeast room.

The exterior is two storeys high with an attic and cellar, presenting an asymmetrical five-window southeast front. The ground and first floors feature 18th or 19th century casements to the left of centre, while the rest are 20th century casements in altered openings. There is a 20th century French casement to the left of centre and an original cellar doorway on the left, which has a cambered brick arch, a moulded wooden frame, and a plank door. A plat band at first floor level runs around the house but is interrupted at the rear where the wall has been patched. There is one original wooden cross-mullion transom window on the first floor to the right, with the lower mullion removed, and the remainder are 20th century casements, along with a 20th century doorway at the centre and 20th century outshuts to the left and right. The end walls also contain 20th century windows.

Inside, the southwest room has a corner fireplace with a chamfered timber lintel featuring long step stops and a curved brick back. There is a corner fireplace in the chamber above with a timber lintel, and the cellar below has two chamfered cross-beams with short hollow step stops. The staircases have been replaced and other fireplaces have been blocked. The attics are ceiled, but the trusses are exposed, with the principals having curved feet supported on tie-beams.

The house was occupied by William Parr from about 1686, as noted in a probate inventory from 1711/12.