Lower Lidwell Farmhouse

The Lower Lidwell Farmhouse, now a house, dates from the late 17th century and incorporates elements of an earlier building, with later additions and alterations. It is constructed of roughly coursed slate-stone with granite quoins, and has slate roofs, with an artificial roof to the front of the main range. The building has a complex plan, based around an 18th-century core. The main range has two storeys and a three-window front. The upper floor has tripartite glazing bar sashes to the left and right, with a blind opening in the centre. The left-hand ground-floor window is a tripartite sash, and the right-hand window is a 5-light 19th-century casement. These openings have wedged voussoirs to segmental heads. A central four-panel door is flanked by these windows. There is an internal end stack with a red brick shaft to the right and an external end stack with a red brick top to the left. A slightly set-back early 19th-century addition stands to the right, with a horned glazing bar sash to the left and paired plate-glass sashes to the right on the first floor. The first floor also has a boarded double door to the centre, all openings featuring wedged heads similar to those on the ground floor of the main range. This 19th-century range appears to truncate what was likely an earlier gabled range (a dairy) running at right angles to the rear. A back wall lean-to has monolithic granite columns over a segmental-pointed, chamfered doorway. A two-storey addition is attached to the right. An outbuilding attached to the left gable end of the main range has quartzite blocks to the back wall. The right-hand ground-floor room of the main range contains a large open fireplace with a massive granite lintel. The staircase has some 18th-century balusters with turned decoration to the middle. Slate shelves are found in the dairy, and a collar truss roof is present in the outbuilding attached to the left gable end of the main range.