High Buston House

High Buston House is a house built around 1780, likely incorporating older materials. It is constructed of squared stone and has a Welsh slate roof. The building is a rectangular villa with two rear wings connected by a single-storey range that encloses a small courtyard. The south front features two storeys and five symmetrical bays, with a chamfered plinth and sill bands. The central entrance is an old half-glazed door set in a 19th-century surround with engaged columns, a cornice, and a pediment. The windows are 12-pane sash types. The house has a tall hipped roof with two axial corniced stacks on the ridge.

The right side of the house has a similar arrangement with two bays on the upper level and two on the lower, where the lower right part is a rear wing with a hip-ended roof and an end stack. The left return also has two bays above and two below, with the main block being similar, except the windows in the right bay are blind. The lower wing to the left features a central blocked door with inserted windows, 16-pane sashes in the right bay, and a 12-pane sash under the blind window to the left, topped by a hip-ended roof with a stepped-and-corniced ridge stack.

On the rear elevation, there is a single-storey three-bay north range that includes a central passageway and slightly projecting end bays with 16-pane sashes, all beneath a hipped roof. To the right, there is an old pump housed in stone with a smoothed roof and a ceramic trough. Above and behind, in the north wall of the main block, is an arched stair window that holds a 12-pane sash with an intersecting head.

Inside, the doors are made of six fielded panels, and there are panelled shutters. The sitting room features a fireplace from around 1900 adorned with older Delft tiles, likely of Dutch origin, and has an acanthus cornice. The dining room includes a foliage cornice. A panelled round arch connects the hall to the stair, which has an inserted mid-19th-century glazed screen. The open-well stair is characterized by stick balusters, a moulded handrail, and shaped tread ends. The irregular spacing and thickness of the ground floor hall walls suggest the presence of older fabric.