Lower Sowerhill Farmhouse

SS82SE BRUSHFORD CP EXEBRIDGE

13/45 Lower Sowerhill Farahouse -

• II

Farmhouse, possibly longhouse. C16, possibly earlier, much altered late C19 and C20. Random rubble local stone, possibly fronting some cob, slate roof hipped to right, external stone stack left gable end, rebuilt brick stack between first and second hays left, large lateral stack to left of entrance. Plan: 4-cell and cross passage. Two storeys, 1:2:2 bays, all C19 window openings with segmental brick heads, small C20 window added first floor left of stack, ground floor windows to right of entrance and C20 picture window end bay left, square headed door, pentice porch. Interior not seen, said to contain 4 moulded beams to hall, presumably forming 9-panel compartment ceiling, peaked doorframe to stair turret at rear, step and runout stops to room to left, room beyond with scroll stops and peaked head doorframe to spiral stair, similar doorframe on first floor with evidence of jointed cruck truss roof rising almost from ground floor level. Listed primarily for historic interest of internal features described in the 1973 VAG Report. (VAG Report, unpublished SR0, February 1973).

Listing NGR: SS8926524646