Lower Lanhay Farmhouse

Lower Lanhay Farmhouse is a late 17th-century farmhouse constructed of painted slatestone and cob, topped with an asbestos slate roof that was formerly thatched. It features a rebuilt brick chimney on the left gable end and an external stone stack on the right gable end. The farmhouse has a two-room plan with a wide cross passage leading to a central stair and stands two storeys high.

The northeast front has three windows and a nearly central doorway with a four-panel door. The windows are irregularly spaced, with the left ground floor window positioned closer to the door than the right window, both featuring old 16-pane, 2-light casements with original scratch-moulded lintels above. The first-floor windows are more closely spaced, with the middle window being narrower and off-centre to the right. All first-floor windows are 18th-century casements with original heavy ovolo-moulded glazing bars, consisting of 2-light casements on the left and right and a single light in the middle, each light containing six panes.

At the rear, there is an off-centre doorway to the left, a small window to the left, and an old 12-pane, 2-light casement to the right. A small window on the first floor opposite the front door likely served the original stair. The ground slopes down to the right, and there is a ruin of an adjoining building on the left. The eaves line slopes lower to the left as the house is wider at the upper end. Although the interior has been largely renewed, a splayed stone fireplace with a timber lintel remains in the upper room, along with an altered wider opening to the lower end hearth. The roof structure was replaced in the 20th century.