Lymore Farmhouse

Lymore Farmhouse is a building divided into two sections, dating from the 18th century. It is constructed of painted brick with slate roofs, featuring brick chimneys. The farmhouse has a roughly square plan, with a narrow gabled wing projecting to the left of the west front. A large gabled range runs east to west at the south, with a wall of brickwork connecting to a range running north, the north end having a brick stack and the northwest wing projecting. A rear, northeast range is gabled to the east, its gable aligned with the east gable of the south range.

The building is two storeys high and incorporates small-paned windows with flat heads, casements above, and longer windows below. The narrow projecting gable on the west has 19th or 20th century bargeboards, a first-floor casement pair, and a ground-floor triple casement with top lights, along with a blocked cellar opening. A garden wall rises up to the left, incorporating a doorway with a cambered head. The right return side has no windows. The range set at a right angle has a door in the angle to the left, housed within a wooden porch with two columns, a cornice, and an enclosed right side. The door is half-glazed, with a four-pane overlight.

The main gable features matching bargeboards, two casement pairs above two sash windows set in brick voussoirs; the left window has small panes to resemble a cross-window, while the right is a four-pane window without the small panes. A lean-to is situated against the south wall, with the west end wall matching the wall against the opposite north end, featuring ramped coping and one similar four-pane sash window to the west. A further lean-to is against the left half of the south wall, with a later 19th-century porch against the east end. To the right is a stuccoed wall with two first-floor long casement pairs, above a ground-floor, central, large three-light 19th-century mullion-and-transom window, and a brick lean-to bay to the right featuring a modern, large four-light window. The rear elevation displays two conjoined, whitewashed gables; the left has a lean-to, and the right has two casement pairs above and one to the ground floor left, all with gauged brick heads.

The north elevation showcases a wide, slate-hung gable, perhaps concealing timber-framed construction, further suggested by a timber post between the two casement pairs to the right of a brick chimney breast, with another on the left. A brick lean-to is present on the ground floor, with a brick chimney rising from the roof to the right, against the side of the northwest projecting wing. The north elevation of the range to the left of the gable is also slate-hung, but reveals slender timber framing with brick infilling to the ground floor.

The interior features large ceiling beams, including one with a three-inch chamfer; not all parts of the interior were inspected during a recent survey.