Lower Turley

Lower Turley is a detached house that was formerly a farmhouse, dating from the 17th century, likely incorporating earlier work, with later alterations and extensions. The building is constructed of cob with a stone plinth, plastered, and features a gabled end roof that is thatched at the front and slated at the rear. Although the structure appears to follow a three-room, cross-passage plan (excluding 20th-century additions), the thick cob party wall dividing the two right-hand rooms, along with the different roof construction and the slightly recessed front wall of the right-hand room, suggests it may originally have been a two-room plan with a 17th or 18th-century extension.

The house is two-storeys high and has end stacks that are external to the left side, featuring two set-offs and brick shafts. The front elevation has a four-window range, all of which are 20th-century three-light metal casements, along with French windows and a porch under a hipped thatched roof. There are 20th-century lean-to extensions at either end, with the left one projecting slightly and having a glazed door. The rear includes a slated outshut and a stair turret under a catslide roof, which has a three-light chamfered timber window.

Inside, the right-hand room contains three chamfered axial beams, while the middle room has three similar beams, two of which have hollow step stops with a bar. The muntins and bressumer of one passage screen are exposed and unchamfered, and there are chamfered lintels over the opposing front and back passage doors, both with step stops. The left-hand room features two chamfered cross beams with hollow step stops, and the end fireplace has a renewed lintel. The newel stairs retain their original treads and risers, which are probably from the 17th century. The roof structure consists of four likely upper crucks with cranked collars halved, principals that are morticed and pegged at the apex, trenched purlins, a diagonal ridge piece, and original rafters.