Lowcote House

Lowcote House is a house dating from around 1670, with later alterations in the 17th and 18th centuries. It is timber-framed with an exposed structure and has a plain tiled roof featuring a partly rebuilt ridge stack. The house has an original L-plan layout, with a kitchen wing at the rear that was extended later in the 17th century. It stands two storeys tall and has three front windows, including a blocked window opening to a closet opposite the stack. The main wall posts of the four bays show downward wall bracing. The ground floor features two modern wood casement windows. The kitchen wing, also timber-framed and exposed, has a single flue ridge stack that has been rebuilt above the ridge.

In the angle of the kitchen wing, there is an 18th-century addition made of red brick in English bond, topped with a steeply pitched concrete tile roof and a dentil eaves cornice, along with an original side stack. This addition is two storeys high and features a segmental arch leading to a reproduction twenty-pane hung sash window, as well as a similar arch to a three-light window, each light containing a hung sash. The principal entry was moved to the east end of this addition; the original entry likely led to a lobby in the north wall of the mid-17th-century range.

Inside, the parlour at the east end of the 1670 range displays 18th-century wall paintings on the remaining four walls, featuring a pattern of vertical tendrils with leaves and fruit in blue, red, and black. The framing consists of comparatively short lengths, particularly noticeable in the exposed rear wall frame. The original hearths have been replaced, and the extension to the kitchen wing is visible. The frame of the original gable end connects with that of the addition, which is in two bays and may have originally been a single storey. The tie beams may have been cut and raised over the doorways on the first floor when the floors were inserted.