Lower Verwill Farmhouse

Lower Verwill Farmhouse is a farmhouse built in 1738, as indicated by a datestone, with some early 19th-century alterations. The building is constructed from unrendered stone rubble, with a finely dressed facade that is arranged in courses. It features slate roofs with gable end stone rubble stacks, one on the left with a drip and another with offsets and a drip on the rear service wing. The farmhouse has an integral L-shaped plan, with a principal heated room on each side of the entrance hall, which contains a staircase leading to the main range, and a right-angled kitchen wing at the rear of the right-hand room. There is a dairy outshut at the back of the main range and a stair turret, likely added in the 19th century, on the rear inner wall of the service wing.

The building is two storeys high and has a symmetrical three-window range. The windows are 12-paned horned sashes, and there is a central six-panelled door. The service wing includes a two-light casement window with eight panes per light, positioned over a plank door, alongside another two-light casement with two panes per light and a single four-paned window, all featuring chamfered timber lintels. The datestone on the left gable end is inscribed "I Charley 1738."

Inside, the farmhouse retains its entirely unspoilt early 19th-century interior fittings, including four-panelled doors throughout, 19th-century chimneypieces in the chambers and the two principal rooms, with the left room featuring a reeded surround stopped at the corners with roundels. Integral cupboards with panelled doors flank the two fireplaces, and there are panelled internal shutters on the facade windows. The rear kitchen wing has a chamfered unstopped cross ceiling beam and a timber lintel over the fireplace, which contains a bread oven with a cast iron door. The central chamber and staircase landing ceiling are adorned with 18th-century moulded plaster cornices. This farmhouse is notable for its high-quality construction and completely unspoilt character.