Lower Willowray

Lower Willowray is a house, formerly a farmhouse, dating from the 17th century or earlier, with a probable 19th-century extension at the higher end. The building features granite rubble walls and a thatched roof, which is hipped at the left end and gabled to the right, raised above the first-floor windows. There is a brick axial stack. The original plan likely consisted of three rooms with a through passage, with the hall stack backing onto the passage, which was removed when the passage and lower end were rebuilt as a cider house in the 18th or 19th century. The inner room has a gable end fireplace with a newel staircase located at the rear.

The house is two storeys tall with an asymmetrical three-window front. There are two windows on the first floor, which are mid-20th century metal frame casements with diamond leaded panes, except for the ground floor window to the right of centre, which is in a shallow projection and lacks glazing bars. A straight joint to the right indicates the beginning of the extensions. The door to the left of centre is a 20th-century plank door with a timber lintel. To the left of the left centre window, the wall curves and continues to the left end, where the cider house has a wide double doorway to the left and an inserted 3-light 20th-century window to its right.

Inside, the hall contains several interesting features, including a heavy cambered longitudinal beam that is chamfered with run-out stops, and a similar half beam at the front and rear. There is a solid wall between the hall and the inner room, which has heavy cross beams that are chamfered with step stops. The fireplace in the inner room has a chamfered wooden lintel with a blocked oven opening on the right-hand side. A stone newel staircase is located at the rear of the inner room. The roof is inaccessible, but the curved foot of one truss suggests it may be a jointed cruck. The lower end of the building remains as a cider house with its crushing mechanism intact.