Low Snowden And Attached Outbuilding

Low Snowden and the attached outbuilding are a house and outbuildings dated 1683, with earlier features and a late 19th-century roof restoration. The outbuildings date from the late 18th to early 19th century. The house is constructed of coursed squared gritstone, with purple slate roofing, while the outbuilding has graduated stone slates.

The house is two storeys high with two bays and a rear outshut bay. It features a board door on the right with "I R" quoined jambs, roll-moulding on the edges, and a large lintel inscribed with "S. 1683". The windows are recessed and chamfered mullions throughout, with the ground floor left having a four-light window, now reduced to two lights, and a three-light window on the far left with one mullion removed, both fitted with paired nine-pane sashes. There is a continuous moulded string course above the windows. On the first floor, there are two and three-light windows. The house has end stacks, with the left stack banded and the right stack large and corniced. The rear of the house has two two-light windows in the outshut.

Inside, there are remains of an earlier timber-framed building, including two pairs of timber posts and a bressumer beam over the fireplace, which supports a large spine beam and ceiling joists. The date 1683 marks the cladding of the house in stone. A fire in the late 19th century destroyed the original reed thatch roof, which was subsequently raised in red brick at the rear.

The outbuildings are also two storeys with two bays and a rear extension bay, built on a downhill slope. The left bay has a doorway with quoined jambs that has been reduced to a window, alongside a square window with a 20th-century frame. The right bay features external steps leading to a board door with tie-stone jambs, a byre door at the lower level on the right with tie-stone jambs, and a square pitching door above. The right return has a square mucking-out door in the center and a pitching door above, with turned-back kneelers and gable copings. The rear of the outbuilding has a projecting half cellar with a two-light flat-faced mullion window, although the roof has collapsed.