Lowden Manor

Lowden Manor is a house dating from the 16th or 17th century, significantly remodelled in the early 19th century, with further additions constructed around 1919 in a vernacular style. It is built of roughcast limestone rubble with freestone quoins and a platband below the parapet. The roof is steeply pitched with stone slate, punctuated by three 20th-century hipped dormers, and features moulded ashlar stacks to the former gable ends. Originally a three-unit plan, the house now forms an L-shape.

The symmetrical main block has a three-window facade, with a four-window, gabled wing added around 1919 to the right. The windows are predominantly 8-pane sashes, except for a central ground-floor window with 6-pane sashes, situated where a former door was located, and a semicircular-arched first-floor window. A porch, added around 1919, sits on the left return, featuring a hipped stone slate roof supported by three square pillars. Above the porch is a timber lintel to a small 18th-century window, while a 2-light stone mullioned window is situated to its left.

The interior, which has not been inspected, is reported to contain carved stops to stop-chamfered spine beams, a 4-centred arch, ogee mouldings and a mantle to an open fire. Records of the manor date back to 1258, when Henry III granted the property to William de Valeree, Earl of Pembroke.