The Lower Garden

The Lower Garden is a house that dates from the 16th or 17th century, with parts rebuilt around 1800 and further additions and alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. It features a timber frame with replacement brick infill that is plastered, while the west end has been rebuilt using flint with brick dressings. There is a single-storey rear addition made of brick and flint, also with brick dressings. The roof is covered in Welsh slate, replacing the original thatch on the eastern section, while the rest of the roof is finished with plain tiles. The house has old brick stacks.

The building stands two storeys high and has four first-floor windows. The south elevation, which serves as the entrance, features a near-central gabled porch from the early to mid-20th century, with a glazed front and a boarded door. The windows have wooden frames and mullions, with the ground floor windows to the left of the entrance having segmental arched heads. The ground floor windows consist of arrangements of 2, 2, 2, 3, and 2 lights, while the first floor has windows with 3, 3, 2, and 2 lights, including a 3-light swept-roofed dormer on the right. The roof is half-hipped at the right end and hipped at the left end.

On the right side of the entrance, there is a broad ridge stack with two flues and an offset top, along with another stack located at the rear left. The rear of the house features a left section with exposed timber framing, including posts that are head-braced to the eaves plate, mid rail, and square panels. There is a boarded door on the left, accompanied by a 4-light window with diamond-set wooden mullions to the left, and boarded-up windows flanking a former 4-light window on the right. Further right, there is a large boarded-up window. On the first floor, to the right of the door, there is a 3-light mullioned window, a leaded casement set on the midrail, a 2-light window, and a part-boarded window. The right-hand section made of flint has a partly external lateral stack on the right and a projecting single-storey gabled addition from the 19th century, which includes a boarded door and a blocked window. The right return of the building shows exposed timber framing, similar to the left, with a window on each floor and raked queen struts with a collar to the gable. The interior was not inspected, and the building was noted to be in a state of dilapidation at the time of listing.