Lower Dodyard

Lower Dodyard is a 17th-century tenement farmhouse that has been converted into a private house, with some earlier fabric possibly still present. The building features painted rendered stone rubble and cob, topped with a thatched roof that has a brick stack at the right gable end and a half-hipped thatch roof on the single-storey lower end. At the rear, there is a lateral stone rubble hall stack with a tapered cap heightened in brick, and a slate roof covers the rear outshut.

The layout consists of a two-room plan, with direct entry into the hall on the left lower end and an inner room to the right, which includes a straight run staircase at the back. A single-storey former outbuilding on the left end has been converted to form part of the dwelling. This end appears to have been rebuilt in the late 18th century or early 19th century, and it is possible that the original design followed a three-room and through-passage plan. There is a continuous outshut at the rear.

The exterior is two-storeys high with a three-window range, featuring 20th-century fenestration throughout. The windows are two-light casements with nine panes per light, except for the hall window, which has three lights. A plank door provides direct access to the hall, and there is a buttress to the right of the hall window.

Inside, the hall fireplace has dressed stone jambs and a slightly hollow chamfered lintel with a bread oven. The axial ceiling beam is chamfered and has prism stops. The inner room end has been altered in the 20th century, and the roof has not been inspected.