Lower Sutton Farmhouse

Lower Sutton Farmhouse is a farmhouse that dates from the early 17th century or earlier, with extensions and alterations likely made in the late 17th century and 19th century. The walls are made of slatestone rubble, rendered at the front, and it features a hipped slate roof with gabled rear wings. There are two brick lateral stacks at the front and one at the left-hand end, along with a rendered rubble axial stack in the lower rear wing and a brick stack in the rear lean-to.

The layout consists of a basic three-room-and-through-passage plan, with the lower end to the right. The lower room and hall are both heated by fireplaces on the front wall, while the inner room has a fireplace on its end wall. There are two parallel rear wings behind the hall and inner room; the one behind the hall is from the 17th century and was originally a kitchen with a now-blocked smoking chamber behind the stack. The date and function of the higher wing are uncertain without closer inspection. Behind the passage and lower end is a shallow two-storey lean-to that incorporates a staircase from the 19th century. The house was modernised in the early 20th century, which has concealed many features where inspection was possible internally.

The exterior is two storeys high and has a long asymmetrical front with five windows, mainly featuring various forms of 20th-century two and three-light casements, except for a 19th-century window on the right side of the first floor and an early 20th-century six-pane sash to the left of centre. The right-hand end of the house projects slightly. At the centre, there is a wide lean-to open-fronted 19th-century porch with a four-panel door behind it. An outbuilding lean-to is attached to the left-hand end of the house, with steps leading up to it. The rear elevation has two gabled wings at the right-hand end, and the rear passage doorway in the lean-to features a reused 17th-century ovolo moulded wooden doorframe.

The interior is not fully accessible, but one bolection moulded two-panel early 18th-century door is visible in the passage. The rooms on either side have blocked fireplaces and boxed-in beams, and there is an early 19th-century staircase in the rear lean-to.