High Whitaker Farmhouse

High Whitaker Farmhouse is a wing of a small manor house, likely dating from the early 16th century, which has been altered and is now used as a farmhouse. The building is constructed from coursed sandstone blocks of irregular size, featuring some quoins, and has a slate roof with overhanging eaves and a ridge chimney stack. It has a rectangular plan oriented on a north-south axis, with a modern single-storey addition set back on the west side, which is thought to be the original location of the hall range.

The farmhouse has two storeys, and its main external features include two mullioned windows with round-headed lights and hollow spandrels, along with two doorways on the east side. The south gable wall has a ground floor window with nine recessed lights that have chamfered jambs and a sill, although the flat head appears to have been rebuilt. The east side wall features a similar three-light window in the front bay, with doorways in the second and third bays that have Tudor-arched heads, crudely undercut in heavy lintels, and massive jambstones; the first doorway is now protected by a stone porch.

Inside, the farmhouse is currently divided into three unequal rooms but was likely originally designed as two. There are four moulded stone corbels in the west wall, three in the east wall, and one at the north end. Back-to-back stone fireplaces are located in the partition wall between the second and third bays, along with what appears to be the remains of an earlier and larger fireplace in the west wall. Historically, the property belonged to the Whitaker family in the 16th century.