Lower Luckworthy

Lower Luckworthy is a farmhouse dating from around the early 17th century, with later 19th-century rebuilding. Originally, the building appears to have been constructed using cob on stone rubble footings. The right gable end has been rebuilt in stone rubble and brick, and the upper storey of the porch is also brick. The external walls are whitewashed and plastered, and the roof is corrugated iron with gabled ends. A prominent stone stack is located at the higher left gable end, featuring set-offs and a brick shaft. A rendered axial stack with a brick shaft serves the hall, and a brick chimney is present at the right gable end. The original plan likely comprised three rooms and a cross passage, with the hall stack backing onto the passage and a heated inner room. A stair was inserted into the passage around the late 19th century. Roof trusses that had previously supported a thatched roof were cut off below collar level, and a new, raised roof structure was built over them. The right gable end wall and the upper storey of the porch were rebuilt, and the partition between the inner room and the hall was removed. A salting room under a lean-to roof was added to the rear, along with a single-storey dairy set at an oblique angle to the inner room.

The farmhouse is two storeys high, with an asymmetrical 4-window front. A gabled 2-storey porch has an early 17th-century outer doorway with two orders of ovolo-moulding and a good 17th-century wide panelled door. The jambs have been cut away at the bottom and rest on stone bases with urn stops. A second entrance on the front, situated on the left, has a circa-19th-century gabled porch with a doorway on the left return. Two ground-floor windows on the left are 4-over-8-pane sashes, while the ground-floor window to the right is a 12-pane sash. Four first-floor windows are 16-pane sashes, one serving the upper storey of the porch.

Inside, there are steps leading up to the hall from the passage. An 18th-century 2-panel door, featuring an H-L hinge, separates the passage and the hall. The hall fireplace has stone rubble jambs and a roughly chamfered lintel with diagonal stops. The lintel in the inner room is unchamfered and appears to be a replacement. A 20th-century fireplace is located in the lower end room. A 19th-century stair with stick balusters is found in the passage, and a servants’ stair is situated in the inner room behind a partition wall. The truncated principal rafters of the earlier roof trusses are straight and unchamfered. The building was named Muckworthy on Ordnance Survey maps.