Lower Well, Including Garden Boundary Walls And Bee-Boles To South

This is a former farmhouse, now a house, likely originating in the 17th century and significantly remodelled in the 19th century. The main block has rubble walls with brick dressings around the windows on the front elevation, while gable ends feature rubble stone stacks and a tall lateral stack to the rear. The roof is slate, with gabled ends and grouted surfaces.

The original layout is obscured by later changes, but likely comprised three rooms and a through-passage with a lower room to the right. The hall was heated by a rear lateral stack, while the lower and inner rooms were heated by gable-end stacks. The purpose of the block to the left is uncertain; it appears to be of 17th-century origin and may have been a separate cottage or an annexe to the main house. Current alterations reveal a 19th-century influence, with two principal rooms to the left separated by a stairwell inserted between the hall and the former inner room, which originally had a front door. The right end of the house contained the former kitchen and service rooms. The cottage had a single-room plan.

The front elevation is asymmetrical, with the cottage on the left and the main house to the right, which has a higher roofline and a shallower pitch. The cottage has a single window and a 20th-century glazed door to the left. Other windows are 20th-century 2-light casements. The main house has a four-window front with a door to the right of centre. A late 20th-century bow window with small panes is located in the centre on the ground floor. Other windows are early to mid-19th-century 16-pane sash windows without horns. A 20th-century part-glazed door is topped by a 19th-century rectangular fanlight. 19th- and 20th-century outshuts are located at the rear.

Inside the cottage, there are two substantial cross beams; one is forked at one end, and both are roughly stop-chamfered. The principal rooms of the main house retain 19th-century features, including panelled doors and shutters. The middle room has a small open fireplace with a plain wooden lintel, likely of the 18th century, and a similar inserted lintel on the rear of the stack in the outshut.

The property is surrounded by rubble stone garden boundary walls extending from either side of the house, one of which is particularly tall and runs alongside the road. This wall incorporates ten small bee-boles in a row, each with curved tops and brick surrounds to the openings. Some bee-boles have a projecting brick arched dripcourse above.