Lower Farmhouse

Lower Farmhouse is a former farmhouse, likely dating from the 16th century, with substantial rebuilding in the 17th century and later extensions during the 19th century in two phases. The original section is built of limestone rubble, while the 19th-century extension is of coursed squared and dressed limestone with dressed stone quoins. The roof is covered in stone slate and artificial slate, with ashlar stacks. The original plan was probably ‘L’ shaped but was partially rebuilt and extended eastward in the 19th century. The house is two storeys high with a cellar and attic.

The south-facing wall of the earliest section has two buttresses and a projecting stack. It contains 20th-century wooden casements with concrete lintels on the ground floor, and mid- to late-19th-century metal casements with small glazed panes above. Two dormers are set into the roof. The north front features the earliest section projecting to the right. Ground-floor windows include a 20th-century wooden casement with glazing bars and a concrete lintel, and a smaller 2-light casement above. A 16-pane sash is set within a dressed stone surround to the left of a 20th-century lean-to porch, which conceals fielded double doors with a 3-pane hall light above. Two similar 16-pane sashes are on the first floor. Twin gables face the road, each with 16-pane sashes. A 2-light stone-mullioned window illuminates the cellar beneath the right-hand gable wall. The east front has a large 3-light window with horizontal glazing bars to the right of a plank stable-type doorway within an artificial stone surround. The upper floor has two 19th-century casements with small panes and one 20th-century casement with glazing bars. Gable-end and axial stacks have moulded cappings.

Inside, the interior includes beams with deep, flat chamfers, and in one room, intersecting beams and an early segmental-headed fireplace with imposts. In the same room, a large 4-centred arched fireplace with carved spandrels containing small square stone plaques has been walled in, a bread oven abuts the fireplace with a segmental-headed brick opening. To the left of the fireplace is a blocked opening with a flat-chamfered surround, possibly once containing a small spiral staircase. Another room features a large open fireplace with a flat-chamfered surround. An upstairs room has narrow intersecting beams. The cellar has a barrel vault.