High Risby Farmhouse

High Risby Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the mid-18th century, likely with earlier origins, and has undergone alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble with brick dressings and is colourwashed. The building features brick stacks and a pantile roof. It has a rectangular plan, consisting of four rooms wide, with a rear outshut and a contemporary L-shaped wing to the left that has a later outshut at the front.

The farmhouse is two storeys high with a symmetrical three-bay front and a wider fourth bay to the left. There is a single storey and attic extension to the left. The entrance is located in the third bay and consists of a part-glazed six-panelled door topped with a radial fanlight, all framed by a Doric surround with pilasters that support an open dentilled pediment. There are 19th-century flat-roofed projecting canted bay windows on either side of the entrance, each containing 12-pane sashes. A single 12-pane sash window in a flush wood surround is located at the left end, featuring a projecting cill and a segmental brick arch. Similar sashes are found on the first floor. The eaves cornice is dentilled brick. The house has an axial stack to the left and an end stack to the right, with tumbled-in brick to the gables, stone coping, and shaped kneelers.

Inside, there is an open well main staircase with a ramped and wreathed handrail, column-on-vase balusters with square knops, and a back staircase featuring a moulded handrail and wavy splat balustrade. The Dining Room on the ground floor to the left has a fielded panel dado with a moulded dado rail and an arched alcove in an architrave with moulded ornament. The Drawing Room on the ground floor to the right features an early 19th-century moulded cornice and a beaded door architrave with floral decoration, with similar architraves on the bay windows. Other original features include three fielded-panel doors and window shutters. A timber board found within the house is inscribed with "Willm Roberts Roxby Carpenter March 17 George Ramsey Mason Roxby 1768," which likely refers to the original building or significant rebuilding work.