Lower Farmhouse

Lower Farmhouse is a house dating from the 16th century or earlier, with alterations made in the 17th century and a west wing added around 1665. It was extended to the south in the early 19th century. The house is arranged in a "T" shape, facing west, and has two storeys and a cellar. It is timber-framed and plastered with steep roofs covered in old red tiles.

The west wing, built around 1665, is of 17th-century red brick, and bears a tablet displaying the date "1665" in the west gable. A wider timber-framed and plastered south wing, dating from the early 19th century, includes a cellar, a hipped roof, an external south chimney, and a two-storey corridor linking to the west wing.

The main range has a three-room plan, with a narrow unheated room at the north end and a large central chimney, serving four flues for the middle and south rooms on both floors. A staircase on the east side of the chimney provides access to former attics. A parallel stair leads to the cellar, though this may be a later addition. Soot-blackened rafter couples remain in the roof around the chimney, and late medieval close studding with tension braces is exposed on the east side of the first floor. A 17th-century butt purlin with expanded ends to chamfered collars is also visible in the former attic. An inserted central chimney with four octagonal shafts serves three-centred arched fireplaces on the first floor, which have chamfered plastered openings. Stopped and chamfered axial and cross beams support an inserted floor.

The elaborate west wing has a moulded band at floor level and across the gable, along with a projecting chimney on the south side featuring twin octagonal shafts and spurred caps. The west gable has a blocked square attic window with a label. A surviving three-light ovolo-moulded oak window is on the north side of the first floor, with other windows being three-light casements. An upper room has a moulded brick fireplace with a depressed three-centre arch and square label, as well as a central recess over. Plaster ornament on the ceiling displays roses, hearts, a palmette border, and crowns. A ground floor room exhibits an ovolo-moulded axial beam, and each half of the plaster ceiling is decorated with a double-headed eagle with roses in the corners. A two-panel early 18th-century door is elaborated with early 19th-century mouldings on the inner face, and a moulded dado rail is present.

The early 19th-century south wing is plastered and has sash windows with six panes per sash. A half-glazed door and a three-light sash window with 4/4:6/6:4/4 panes are also present. The external gable chimney on the south side has four-panel moulded doors with brass case locks. A boarded parlour features a moulded dado rail and a marble fire surround. A narrow rear room contains a glazed door to the garden. The first floor has a similar layout. The house is part of a group of historic buildings within a conservation area.