21 and 22, Lowther Village

Two houses, numbers 21 and 22 Lowther Village, were constructed between 1765 and 1773 by Robert Adam as estate houses for Sir James Lowther. They were intended as part of a model village, although this scheme was never fully realised. The houses are built of mixed sandstone rubble with string courses on the two-storey sections. They have graduated greenslate roofs, with hipped roofs at the ends and banded, cement-rendered chimney stacks. The buildings form a quadrant of a circular layout, with a single-storey, ten-bay central section and two-storey, single-bay wings at either end. Plank doors are located at the ends of the single-storey range, and there are 20th-century casement windows with glazing bars in original, plain reveals; all are set within red sandstone lintels and sills. Originally divided into numerous houses, the buildings fell into semi-derelict condition by the early 1960s. They were altered in 1965 with a grant from the Historic Buildings Council. Further information can be found in the Ancient Monuments Society's Transactions, volume 14, pages 57-73, and in R.W. Brunskill’s publication, Lowther Village and Robert Adam.