Original house at Lower Cosmeston Farm

Two storey farm building range (former house), aligned roughly E-W. Gabled single storey wing added at right angles to S ‘front’ elevation. Rubble limestone with brick and block dressings, repairs and additions. Under corrugated tin roof.

SE corner rebuilt in block (around the C17 gable stair). Extension added to right, mono-pitch roof, wide door in angle with main range. Further (much later) extension added on E side. Right gable with steps and door to upper floor. Door to lower right to E end. E gable with large projecting stack (rebuilt to S corner) and capped by brick. N elevation largely obscured by vegetation but with corrugated tin lean-to at W end, blocked window openings to C17 part visible.

S elevation with 3 doors to the ground floor, wide cart door to right, narrow central door and wider door to left with flanking window and window above. Small square window above central door. Single storey extension to right.

Entry to the earliest part is through the right hand cart door on S elevation. Large fireplace and stepped stack in E wall, with boarded-over doorway opening to NE corner (an early entrance); beam built into E wall, recessed above and with joist sockets, lintel and small blocked opening in wall above. Doorway opening and evidence of central window opening in N wall (heavily damaged).

Later C17 extension retains gable fireplace (now infilled) with massive timber lintel and stone jams, gable staircase survives to left, but upper floor inaccessible. Blocked doorway to earlier house. E gable with projecting stack and with corbel table at ceiling height. E extension with door from early part and secure room built into SW corner. Floor replaced but end beams with joist sockets survive suggesting narrow framing floor structure.

Extension on S with gable fireplace and small cast iron grate.