Lower Hellingtown Farmhouse

Lower Hellingtown Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 17th century, which has undergone significant alterations in the 19th century, including a 19th-century addition. The building features stone rubble walls that are partially rendered, with slate hung at the front and a gable-ended slate roof. There are two rubble gable end stacks with brick shafts, as well as a rendered rubble rear lateral stack. The original layout of the farmhouse is obscured by later changes, but it likely started as a two-room structure with a through-passage, where both rooms were heated by a gable end stack.

In the mid-19th century, a heated rear kitchen wing was added to the right side, and the passage was enlarged to create a larger stair hall. An outshut was added, likely in the later 19th century, behind the left-hand room and parallel to the rear wing. The farmhouse is two storeys high with a regular three-window front, where the openings are positioned to the left. The left-hand window on the first floor is an early 19th-century 16-pane hornless sash, while the others are similar but with horns, likely 20th-century replicas. The centre window on the first floor has 12 panes.

On the ground floor, there is a gabled porch, probably from the 19th century, which reuses a 17th-century segmental-headed chamfered granite doorway, with what is likely an early 20th-century 11-panelled door behind it. The outshut at the rear of the left-hand room features a single light moulded granite-framed window. The rear wing connects to the left, with an outshut abutting it. On the right-hand gable end of the house, there is a single square-headed granite-framed light, which has probably been restored.

Inside, the two gable end fireplaces are framed in granite but are likely reconstructed from undressed pieces of stone.