Lower Woods Farmhouse

Lower Woods Farmhouse is an early 17th-century farmhouse, likely remodelled in the early 18th century, with a mid-20th century extension. It’s constructed from limestone rubble with wooden lintels, some ashlar dressings, and has old plain-tile roofs with rubble gable stacks. The farmhouse is two storeys plus an attic. The front of the house features a three-light stone mullioned-and-transomed window to the right, with renewed two-light casements above and to the left. The building lines are irregular, extending along the wall on both sides of this window. The right-hand wall has a large chimney projection and two blocked openings. A lower range to the left is largely hidden by the 20th-century wing but has a steeply pitched roof and a gable stack. The rear of the higher section has renewed casements with some stop-chamfered lintels, including those to partly-blocked cellar windows. The rear of the narrower lower range has a doorway with a stop-chamfered lintel. The higher range has an 18th or 19th-century roof and may have been reduced in height. Inside the lower range is a large, open fireplace with a chamfered bressumer. The higher range features an ovolo-moulded beam and a fine stone Tudor-arched fireplace with ovolo mouldings and recessed spandrels. A smaller, similar fireplace was noted upstairs. Historically, the farmhouse was formerly known as Leicester's and was reputedly a hunting lodge.