Lower Farmhouse, Newbold Grounds

Lower Farmhouse is an 18th-century farmhouse, altered in the 19th century and forming a U-shaped plan; it is located in Newbold Grounds. The original farmhouse was L-shaped, with a later 19th-century wing added to the west. A taller stair tower sits between the two south wings. The house is constructed of coursed squared ironstone, with lighter coloured ironstone quoins and dressings, and a tiled pitched roof. The 19th-century wing is brick with a tiled roof, and the east chimney stack is also brick.

The main house is two storeys with attics. The front range has a pitched roof with stone-coped gables and kneelers. The original 18th-century south wing has a hipped roof, and the 19th-century wing has a pitched roof. The symmetrical north front has a central entrance with a stone lintel and pronounced keystone, and a four-panelled door. It is flanked by modern, double-glazed tripartite mullioned and transomed casement windows, slightly enlarged, with a storey band immediately above the lintels. Three mullioned casements, also double-glazed, are on the first floor, the centre with two lights and the outer with three. Both gable ends have small blocked windows to the south of the chimney stacks. To the south, both wings have first-floor windows positioned above ground-floor window openings which have been enlarged into doorways leading onto steps. The stair tower features windows at mezzanine and attic level.

Inside the main front range, an axial beam supports floor joists across the two front rooms. The fireplaces in both rooms have been rebuilt, and the wall between the east room and the original central passage has been removed to create a single space. A post on a stone plinth supports the axial beam. This room opens onto a small hall and the stair tower. To the east, in the 18th-century wing, is a living room with a transverse beam supporting floor joists and a brick fireplace. A modern staircase rises to the first floor within the stair tower. Historic features are limited on the first floor, with only a chimney breast surviving in the west room of the main front range. The attics are lined, but the roof structure is visible to collar height. Both the main range and the south-east wing have roofs of principal rafter construction with collars and staggered butt purlins.