Low Chapel Farmhouse

Low Chapel Farmhouse is a farmhouse, now a dwelling, dating from the early to mid 18th century. It has been altered and features an added shippon. The building is constructed of roughly coursed sandstone rubble and has a green slate roof. It has a transitional one-and-a-half depth, two-unit plan with an almost full-width rear outshut built back-to-earth, oriented on an east-west axis and facing south, with a lean-to shippon added to the west end.

The exterior is two storeys high with four windows, although the fourth window is blocked. The west half has a sloping plinth, while the other half features a plinth made of large boulder stones. There is an interrupted stone slate drip-course over the ground floor. The ground floor includes a small gabled porch, which is slightly offset to the left, protecting a square-headed doorway with a 20th-century part-glazed door. To the left of the doorway are two 20th-century two-light casements, and to the right is one, along with a recent top-hung casement. The first floor has three recent top-hung casements and a blocked window to the right. The house has gable chimneys and a large lean-to at the left end. The rear features a blocked one-light fire-window at the west end, while the rest has a deep outshut under a catslide roof, which is mostly blind except for a doorway at the east end.

Inside, there is a thick stone lateral partition wall to the right of the doorway and an inserted partition to the left. The housepart to the left contains two lateral beams, while the room to the right has one axial beam. A stone staircase is located in the outshut, accessed from the housepart, although it is now separated from it by the inserted partition. This farmhouse is a good example of the transitional one-and-a-half depth plan, which is rare in this area.