Lower Newlands

Lower Newlands is a hall house, now functioning as a residential property, dating from around 1380 and the 15th century. It features a timber frame that is exposed, with painted brick and plaster infill, and part of the structure is underbuilt with painted brick. The roof is plain tiled. The building has a central two-bay hall range with projecting chamber blocks at either end. It is one storey and an attic in the center, showcasing a large panel frame with tension and arched bracing, while the wings are two storeys high, set on a flint plinth with hipped roofs and gablets, and two gabled dormers. There is a stack located to the center right and a large offset, freestanding coursed rubble stack with a red brick flue at the left end. The left cross wing jetties on dragon posts, while the right originally jettied but has since been underbuilt in brick. Each wing has one wooden casement window on each floor, and there is one wooden casement in the central range, along with a door featuring six raised and fielded panels located in a gabled porch to the center right, aligned with the original screens passage entry.

Inside, the hall has been ceiled over, and a stack was inserted in 1611, as indicated by a date on the mantel over the fireplace in the right-hand cross wing, which also has a crown post roof. The timbers over the hall range are smoke blackened. On either side of the inserted stack are two vertical timbers of significant size, suggesting that the hall range may have originally been aisled. There is a stone fire surround in the left-hand cross wing and a fine series of 18th-century bolection moulded raised and fielded panelled doors. Additionally, there is a brick-lined copper in the kitchen located in the right end wing.