Listed Building: LOWER FARMHOUSE (284255)

TL 87 SE TROSTON THE STREET (EAST SIDE) 2/62 Lower Farmhouse - II Farmhouse. Circa 1600. 1 1/2 storeys. Timber-framed, partly rendered, but mainly encased in mid C19 red brick. Roof of reed thatch with decorated ridge. An internal chimney-stack with plain red brick shaft, and a C19 stack, set externally on the north end wall. Early C20 4-, 3-, and 2-light mullion-and- transome type windows with gauged heads to surrounds on ground storey: 3 gabled dormers with 3-light casement windows to upper storey: 3 eyebrow dormers along rear slope of roof. Lobby entrance inside a mid C19 5-sided brick porch with tented plaintiled roof. A single-storey brick lean-to, partly rendered with pantiled roof, runs the whole length of the rear wall. Studding and main ceiling-beams visible inside: 3-cell plan, but the third unit at north end may be an addition. At the south end, the partition which divided the service bay into 2 has been removed, and there is a blocked original window behind the brick facing on the upper storey of the gable. Listing NGR: TL8963672397