Lower Pant Farmhouse

The house is built of local sandstone rubble with squared quoins, natural slate roofs. L-shaped plan with the two blocks joined only at one corner. Two storeys. The inside of the L has the chamber block on the left and the service block in front with the main door. The chamber block is the taller with a high ground storey and a low upper storey. This has two 3-light timber casements in elliptical heads below and three 2-light similar above. Low pitch roof with stack on left gable, the gable is blind. The service block appears from the disturbed walling to be in two builds, and the internal planning also suggests this. The entrance is in the angle between the two blocks. To the right of this is a 3-light window with a 2-light one above, further 2-light window to the right of this. Low pitch roof with a ridge stack at the possible join between the builds. The rear elevation of the east-west block has been rendered and has a glazed door and two windows below and three 2-light casements above, all C20 joinery. Conservatory on left gable also covering the gable end of the north-south block, which has the one surviving C16 window, a 6-light one with richly moulded mullions, see Interior. Rear of north-south block not seen.

The interior planning is confusing with broken through walls and removed partitions. The entrance door is into an unheated compartment which now contains the main staircase but also has the 6-light window with double roll moulded mullions. To the right of this is the kitchen at a lower level which has a ceiling with both the main beams and the joists stopped and chamfered. Large re-constructed fireplace with stair to right behind plank door and door through to left into the probable extension, which has modern rooms. The chamber block is entered to the left of the front door from the hall and this leads into a room with an elaborate ceiling with ovolo mouldings to both the main beams and the joists. The partition wall between this Dining Room and the Sitting Room beyond has been moved from its original position as the beams show. The Sitting Room also has ovolo moulded beams but the joists have gone or are hidden.