18, Market Street

Lower Holker is a house located at 18 Market Street in Flookburgh, built in 1665. The architect is unknown. The building is constructed of roughcast stone and has a slate roof, featuring a T-shaped plan with rear extensions forming the tail of the T.

The front facade has two storeys. It includes a modern half-glazed front door set beneath a two-arched recessed stone lintel, which flanks a carved date. To the left of the door, there is a casement window and a two-light stone mullioned fire window. The upper floor features small paned fixed glazing in the windows, with the larger window having pivoted upper lights and the smaller window having one opening pane. The rear facade has a two-storey projection with a slate roof, along with a modern smaller single-storey extension added to it. A gable-end chimney stack and a cross-axial chimney stack project from the roof.

The interior has not been inspected. The house is a mid-17th century vernacular domestic building that, despite some modernisation, retains original features and exemplifies an architectural style commonly found in many settlements around the Morecambe Bay area. The modern single-storey extension to the rear is believed to have been added around 1990.