Lower Westwood Farmhouse

Lower Westwood Farmhouse is a farmhouse that has been divided into a house and cottage but is now one house again. It likely dates from the 16th or 17th century and was remodeled in the 18th and 19th centuries. The walls are made of rendered and painted cob, and the roof is thatched with wheat-reed. There is a brick chimney over a large external rubble breast on the left gable end and a brick stack over the right gable end, which is now a party wall with a 19th-century extension or remodeling at a lower level on the right, featuring a dry slate roof. The wide verge has exposed purlin ends and a brick gable stack.

The farmhouse has a three-room, cross- or through-passage plan with a rebuilt or reduced lower end on the right, which was deepened in the 19th century to create narrow rear service rooms, plus a rear wing at the lower end. It is two storeys high and nearly symmetrical, with a two-window south front for the house and a one-window front for the lower end. The house has an off-centre doorway to the left with a top-glazed six-panel door and a part-glazed 19th or 20th-century porch with a hipped thatch roof. The old three-light casements have eight panes per light, with the first-floor windows set slightly to the right. The lower end features a doorway to the left and old two-light casements with glazing bars. The interior has not been inspected but is said to be little altered and retains a possibly jointed cruck oak roof structure.