Higher Close House Farmhouse

The property is a farmhouse, now a house, likely dating from the late 17th century, with extensions added in the early 18th century, and subsequent alterations. It is constructed of coursed squared sandstone, partly watershot, with some large quoins, and has a grey tiled roof. The building has a modified L-shaped plan. The original part features three bays aligned north-south, previously including a baffle-entry where the first and second bays meet, and a rear outshut. A wing was added to the front of the third bay, and a lean-to porch with a later extension was built into the angle. The farmhouse is two storeys high. The porch, aligned with a ridge chimney, has a doorway in its left side wall with a roll-moulded surround and hoodmould. A recessed square window is present in the front wall, with remnants of a hoodmould. An addition to the right incorporates inserted doors, which have been converted into windows. The first bay to the left of the porch features two ground-floor windows and one above; to the right, the re-entrant corner of the wing has one window on each floor, all of which have been modernised to a horizontal-rectangular design. The gable of the wing has a round-headed attic light, stone coping with kneelers, and a gable chimney. The rear of the building's northern half is rendered and blind, while the southern half incorporates a two-stage outshut. The earlier section of the outshut was originally a porch or stair turret, altered into a porch, and aligned with a ridge chimney. The later section is constructed of watershot masonry and features a multi-light flush-mullion design, broken by a doorway. The north end of the main range has remains of altered chamfered mullion windows of two lights at ground floor and three lights above. The wing has two similar windows at the first floor, and both ends feature various inserted windows. The interior has been altered, but a chamfered Tudor-arched doorway is exposed in the entrance hall. The second and third bays of the main range have stopped ovolo-moulded spine beams with run-out stops.