Low Hall Farmhouse And Attached Barn And Byre Range

Low Hall Farmhouse and attached barn and byre range is a house and barn complex, with the house dating from the mid- to late 17th century and the barn range from the mid- to late 18th century. The house is constructed of coursed squared gritstone with a graduated stone slate roof, while the barn and byre range also features stone slate roofing.

The house is two storeys and four bays, arranged in a lobby-entry plan with a projecting two-storey porch bay in the third position. The exterior features quoins. A 20th-century board door is set within a porch, which has an elliptical-arched lintel and tie-stone jambs. Chamfered mullion windows are recessed throughout the house, with a continuous dripmould to the ground floor. These windows have 4, 4 and 3 lights on the ground and 3 lights on the first floor. The ground-floor window in the second bay has been enlarged by lowering the sill. The porch is slightly jettied on all three sides and has a small, blocked circular window in the gable, along with bulbous kneelers and gable copings with finials. The main body of the house has hollow-moulded kneelers with pyramidal finials. A large, corniced ridge stack is positioned opposite the entrance. The interior was not inspected during a resurvey, but retains important features including a stone seat inside the porch, a chamfered surround to the inner doorway, a large stone arched fireplace on the left of the stack with joggled voussoirs and a stone beehive oven, and a carved stone over the rear staircase window portraying a winged face flanked by birds within a rectangular frame.

The attached barn and byre range consists of a three-bay barn section, with two bays added to the right. The barn section has quoins and a central segmental-arched cart entrance with quoined jambs and double board doors. To the right is a square window, and tie-stone jambs flank the byre door on the far right. The added bays to the right feature a round-arched door with the inscription "GN" and scrolls, a small window to the right, external stone steps, and a byre door with a plain lintel on the far right. The first floor has a central door flanked by square windows, all set in plain stone surrounds. The interior of the barn and byre was not inspected.