Lower Shaw Farmhouse

Lower Shaw Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the mid-18th century, with a later 18th or early 19th century cheese room addition, and subsequent alterations. The main range is faced in red brick with blue headers in Flemish bond, while the rest is rubble stone with brick dressings. The roof is graduated Cotswold stone slate, with pantiles to the cheese room addition. It is two storeys with an attic.

The farmhouse has a three-bay main range, with three short parallel rear wings, the left wing including a rear extension for the cheese room. The front features a central door of six flush panels, the upper four glazed, and a later gabled porch of red brick with a stone, round-arched opening. There is a small-pane wood casement window over the door. Other windows are mostly of three lights, with flat brick arches and keystones (some now concrete), on the ground floor with concrete sills and on the first floor with tile sills. The roof is half-hipped, with corniced brick ridge stacks to the outer rear wings; the stack on the right has a stone diamond dated 1787, and another is located between the left-hand wing and extension.

At the rear, a central board door has a four-pane overlight. A flat-roofed infill block of the 20th century (not of special interest) is set against a former yard wall, which retains a bread oven at the front. The right wing extension has blocked former ground and first-floor doors, the latter now a window, and the ends of the purlins are visible in the gable. Segmental header-brick-arched windows are present on the main range and the returns of the wing extension. The right return has an attic window with overlapped glass; the wing has a later sash window with glazing bars under a wedge lintel. The left return has a probably early 20th century bay window and a 2-light attic window; a window is present on each floor of the wing.

Inside, the front range has brick-infilled stud partition walls. Original board and panelled doors remain, including a board door in the rear gable of the cheese room, which also contains large-scantling chamfered beams with run-out stops. The first floor and attic have old floor boards. A wooden winder stair leads to the attic, which contains one old metal casement frame with a decorative catch, and five roof trusses with wide-spaced raking queen struts, curved collars, chamfered staggered butt purlins, and mostly old rafters.