Low Farmhouse

Low Farmhouse is a former farmhouse dating to the late 16th and 17th centuries, constructed in two phases with a later 17th-century service wing at the rear to the left. The house originally had a three-cell plan, with two storeys and an attic. It is timber-framed and plastered, with a thatched roof. Various 19th and 20th-century casement windows are visible, and there is a plank door. An internal stack, with an axial shaft that was rebuilt in 1987, is present.

The rear wing is a storey and a half high and has a stack against the outside wall, which was in the process of being rebuilt when surveyed in 1987, and a shallow-pitched pantiled roof. The parlour cell to the right was undamaged by a fire that destroyed the roof over the hall and service cells and retains considerable original detail: closely-spaced chamfered joists in the lower room, a good intact roof with clasped purlins, and two-way wind bracing. The hall and service cells were likely added in the 17th century, replacing earlier fabric. The wallplates of the two sections are not jointed. The hall ceiling has plain joists set flat; the bay nearest the stack features very heavy joists, potentially reused. A service partition was removed and replaced with a cross-partition in the lower bay of the hall. Back-to-back open fireplaces in the hall and parlour exhibit mortar joints.