Lower Penare

Lower Penare is a farmhouse, now a house, dating from around the 17th century, with an addition from the later 17th century and alterations made in the late 19th and 20th centuries. The building is constructed of slatestone rubble, with the main front rendered. It features a slate roof with ridge tiles and gable ends. There are gable end stacks, one to the left with a brick shaft and another to the right with a rubble shaft. At the left end of the addition, there is a gable end stack with a rubble shaft and a shaped top.

The layout consists of a two-room and cross passage plan, with each room heated from a gable end stack. A late 17th-century addition of one room was made at the left end, also heated from a gable end stack. To the rear left, there is an unheated outshut, likely from the 19th century, and at the right end, there are two outshuts: a single-storey front one and a single-storey rear one with a loft, projecting as a rear wing and heated from a gable end stack.

The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical two-window front. There is a central 20th-century gabled porch with a 20th-century inner door. The ground and first floors on the left and right have late 19th-century four-pane sash windows. The lower two-storey addition on the left features a 20th-century two-light six-pane casement window at both the ground and first floors, along with a 20th-century plank door to the right. To the right, there is a single-storey lean-to built around the external stack, with a 20th-century single light window with a timber lintel at the front. The right end is rendered and roughcast, and is blind. The left end has a large stepped external stack, while the rear is rendered. The rear wing on the left has 19th-century two-light three-pane casement windows at the ground and first floors on the inner side. There is a 20th-century addition at the rear of the passage, and a 20th-century window lighting the stair at the first floor. To the right, there is a single-storey outshut with two 20th-century two-light casements and a 20th-century door at the left end.

Inside, the entrance passage features a roughly hewn and chamfered ceiling beam to the right. There is a straight stair inserted in the passage, with a panelled screen partition at the first floor, likely from the 18th century. The rest of the house was not accessible.