Higher Hey Cottage Higher Hey Farmhouse

Higher Hey Cottage and Higher Hey Farmhouse is a farmhouse dated 1688 that has been extended and is now divided into two dwellings. It features rendered rubble with exposed quoins and a stone slate roof, which has two chimneys on the ridge and one on the right gable. The building has a cruciform plan that has been modified, with a two-bay baffle-entry, a front porch, and a rear stair turret with an outshut. A third bay has been added at the left end, continuing the outshut.

The farmhouse is two storeys high and has a prominent two-storey gabled porch with a Tudor-arched doorway. Above the doorway is a datestone inscribed in relief with the initials NH AH (WH = William Halstead) HH EH W H 1688. The front windows have been altered, but there is still one stone mullion window on the first floor to the left of the porch. The rear of the building features a gabled stair turret, a first-floor window with a stone mullion to the left of the turret, and a continuous outshut to the right that includes a very small oblong window under the eaves; otherwise, the openings have been altered. Inside, the farmhouse has beams set on edge and a carved salt cupboard.