Higher Barn Farmhouse

This is a late 17th-century farmhouse, with earlier remains, constructed of sandstone rubble and covered by a felt-covered stone slate roof. The east front has one bay on each side of a two-storey gabled porch. The windows are rebated and chamfered with hoods. A five-light window is located on the left side of the ground floor, and a four-light window is on the right. Mullions have been removed from other windows. The porch has windows on both floors and a blocked two-light window at the apex. A door with plain reveals is to the left of the left-hand bay, and an irregular joint in the masonry is above the door lintel. The left-hand part of the facade is blind. Chimneys rise behind the ridge in line with the doorway and project with offsets from the right-hand gable. A third chimney is also present, being square in plan, tall, tapering, and having an industrial appearance. A projecting wing is situated at the rear.

Inside, the northern rooms on the ground and first floors have chamfered stone fireplaces with canted heads. A ground-floor room contains an ovolo-moulded spine beam with run-out stops. Between this room and the stair is a timber-framed wall, revealing a cruck truss on the ground floor, with two blades and two tie-beams. The ground-floor fireplace of the middle room is built within an earlier inglenook with a fireplace bressumer. On the first floor, the area above the fireplace is enclosed by timber-framed partitions, which likely enclose the site of a former firehood. A blocked 17th-century chamfered stone fireplace is set within one of these walls. The ground and first floors each feature a 17th-century internal door.