Lower Knowle Hill Farmhouse

Lower Knowle Hill Farmhouse is a building that is said to have been a rectory and dates from the mid-16th century, with 17th-century additions and mid-19th-century alterations. It is timber-framed, with the front elevation covered in alternating bands of plain and fishscale tiles, while the right gable end is weatherboarded. The roof is covered with plain tiles.

The farmhouse consists of six timber-framed bays, with the second and third bays from the left forming a hall made up of two unequal-length bays, and a narrow smoke-bay to the right end of the longer right bay. The left end bay was formerly subdivided. The building has two storeys and a garret, sitting on a stone plinth, and features a cellar at the right end.

There is a short 19th-century wing that projects to the front at the left end, a narrower 17th-century wing in the centre, and a narrow but longer 17th-century wing at the right end, creating an irregular E-plan. The latter two wings have eaves that jet out on curved and shaped brackets, and all wings display thin close-studding and waved bargeboards. The roof of the 19th-century wing forms a hip at the left end of the main range.

A tall multiple brick stack sits on a moulded plinth with a corbelled top and a base for a circular upper flue, located on the front slope of the roof towards the left end in the left bay of the hall. There is also a multiple brick ridge stack at the right end. The fenestration is irregular, featuring five three-light casements: one in each outer wing, one in the central wing with returning side-lights, and one on either side of the central wing. A half-glazed door with stained glass is located in a half-glazed, gabled porch between the left and central wings, with a lean-to on the right side.

At the rear, there is a short rendered two-storey addition to the left half of the house. Inside, the farmhouse has exposed timbers, with 17th-century beams of heavy scantling on both floors, some of which have been inserted. There are ovolo-moulded mullion windows, 17th-century turned balusters on the landing, moulded brackets on the ground-floor beams, and plain crown-posts in the left half of the house, with a clasped purlin roof featuring diminishing principal rafters in the right half.