Lower Badworthy Including Outbuilding Adjoining North East

Lower Badworthy is a house, formerly a farmhouse, with an adjoining outbuilding located to the northeast. It likely dates from the 17th century but was largely rebuilt in the early 19th century. The building is constructed of granite rubble and features an asbestos slate roof with a hipped higher end and a gabled lower end covered with Welsh slates. The front was probably originally slate hung, with remnants of slate hanging visible in panels below the first-floor windows. A rendered lateral stack rises from the rear wall, and there is a former end stack at the ridge of the higher end.

The original layout was likely a three-room plan with a through passage, including an internal rear lateral hall stack and a later end stack heating the inner room. However, the plan was significantly altered in the early 19th century, which included the complete rebuilding of the lower end and extensive alterations and heightening of the higher end. This work involved inserting a doorway into the front of the inner room and adding an outbuilding with a loft above at the higher end.

The house has two storeys and a regular five-window range. The 19th-century windows are three-light casements with glazing bars and flat stone arches. The left-hand first-floor window was originally a loft loading door, and the doorway below it has a slate canopy supported by large granite cantilevered corbels. The main front doorway is located to the left of centre and also features a slate canopy. There is a right-hand end doorway leading into the lower room, and all doorways have 20th-century doors. A right-hand lower end doorway leads into a shippon, with external stone stairs to the loft loading door above. The rear wall has limited fenestration but includes a narrow window beside the lateral stack, which likely served as a stair window originally.

The interior has not been fully inspected, but the rear lateral stack in the former hall has a lintel that is roughly chamfered with run-out stops, surprisingly made of timber rather than granite. A small fireplace in the higher end has a rough unchamfered granite lintel, suggesting this stack was a later addition and that the inner room was probably unheated originally. The current front doorway leads into a lobby in the higher end room, and the position of the stairs is uncertain. Early 19th-century panelled window shutters are present on the front ground floor windows.