Lower Lye

Lower Lye is a Grade II* listed house, formerly a farmhouse, dating from the early 16th century. It features an open-hall design with an inserted floor and stack. The building is constructed of stone rubble, with the rear plastered, and has a thatched roof with half-hipped and gabled ends. The layout includes three rooms and a through passage, with a later wing added at the rear of the lower end.

The house stands two storeys tall and has a long range of three windows, which are small casements with glazing bars. The doorway to the through passage is located to the right of the centre and features a plank door and thatched porch. An axial stack is positioned at the ridge, backing onto the through passage, with another stack at the lower gable end; both are later insertions and rebuilt at the top in brick. The unheated inner room has a later, now truncated, projecting stack at the higher end.

The later wing at the rear of the lower end creates an L-shaped plan and also has a thatched half-hipped roof. There are round stair turrets in the angle and another round stair turret on the side, above the back door of the through passage, which has a heavy chamfered doorframe and thatched hood. Inside, the roof is smoke-blackened and features jointed cruck trusses and hip. There are plank and muntin screens, one at the lower side of the through passage and the other at the inner end of the hall, along with two solid tread newel stairs.