Lowerton Farmhouse And Adjacent Pighouses

Lowerton Farmhouse and adjacent pighouses is a farmhouse dating from the late 19th century, featuring elements from the 17th century that have been reused in a nearby outbuilding now serving as pighouses. The building is constructed from slatestone rubble, with the front covered in slate. It has a hipped slate roof with ridge tiles and stacks that have rendered shafts on the sides.

The farmhouse has a double depth plan, with the main rooms located at the front on the right and left, a dairy at the rear left, and a kitchen at the rear right. The pighouses, located adjacent to the front right, contain 17th-century features and may include part of the wall from the earlier building, made of slate rubble with granite dressings.

The exterior is two storeys high with a symmetrical three-window front, all featuring 19th-century windows with 20-pane sashes. There is a central open-fronted gabled porch with an outer round arch and an inner four-panelled door with an overlight. The left side is slate-hung, with a single light window for the dairy on the ground floor to the left, while the right side has a blind rubble wall. The rear has three 16-pane sashes on the first floor, and on the ground floor, there is a 16-pane sash with a cambered head to the right and left, along with a 20th-century rubble gabled porch off-centre to the left.

On the front wall of the pighouses, there are two re-used chamfered granite windows that are blocked, along with three doors at ground level and a single-storey lean-to attached to the rear. The front features an inset granite stone carved with a primitive face, topped with a hood mould. The interior has not been inspected.