Lower Cory

Lower Cory is a house, likely dating back to the early 16th century or earlier, with alterations in the 17th and 20th centuries. It is built of stone rubble with some masonry brought to course, covered by a scantle slate roof. The right gable end chimney is made of local brick, while the left gable end chimney is stone with a moulded cap. The house incorporates some 19th-century brick dressings and polyphant stone dressings.

The building’s development has been complex, probably starting as a small medieval open hall house, extended in the 17th century with the addition of a two-storey front projection. A parlour at the higher end is now missing. The lower end currently consists of two rooms, divided by a stair hall that may have formerly served as a passage between service rooms and the hall. The house's plan is now single-depth, spanning three rooms wide, with a rear right outshut under a catslide roof. A two-storey front projection forming an "L" shape with the main range includes a porch and stair.

The front of the house has a three-plus-one window arrangement, with a gabled two-storey projection on the right. The main entrance is through a square-headed, chamfered stone doorway with carved label stops, although the hoodmould is missing. A later 20th-century storm porch with a sloping slate roof covers a secondary entrance into the stair hall. Ground-floor windows are set within flat brick arches. These include a late 19th-century 16-pane sash window, a 20th-century 2-light casement with six panes per light, a 19th-century 2-light casement with eight panes per light, and another 19th-century 2-light casement also with eight panes per light. First-floor windows consist of a 2-light 19th-century casement with six panes per light, a 20th-century 2-light casement with four panes per light, and a 2-light hollow-chamfered polyphant mullioned window above the main entrance. A small stair light is located to the right of the mullioned window. Remains of a mullioned window are visible in the left return of the projection. Further 2-light timber mullioned windows are present at first-floor level on the rear left side of the house. A 3-light polyphant mullioned window with a hoodmould and label stops can be found on the ground floor of the left gable end.

Inside, the room on the right of the ground floor features a large fireplace with a chamfered beam with runout stops. The room on the left features ceiling beams and a large fireplace. A large recess with a seat is built into the rear wall of this room, and there is no evidence of a former window. The late 17th/early 18th century dogleg stair has a ramped handrail and turned balusters. The first-floor room to the left replicates the recess in the rear wall and features a fireplace with a chamfered beam with step ogee stops. The middle first-floor room has a moulded timber cornice. Visible principals in the first-floor rooms at the lower end indicate a raised roof. The front right projection contains a stone newel stair. The upper end of the house features two smoke-blackened trusses with collars pegged and halved into principals.