High Melwood Farmhouse

High Melwood Farmhouse is a house, now functioning as a farmhouse, likely built in the early 18th century but with earlier origins, for the Acklom family. It underwent alterations and additions during the late 18th and 19th centuries, particularly to the west. The building is constructed of brick and is colour-washed, topped with a pantile roof. The original section is rectangular in plan and double-depth, featuring a two-room, central-entrance south front, with a one- or two-room addition to the left and a further single-room extension beyond.

The south front has two storeys, with two first-floor windows in the original section and a single-window addition and lower two-storey extension to the left. The entrance to the earlier section features a 19th-century part-glazed door beneath a plain overlight, flanked by two 19th-century four-pane sash windows with sills beneath brick flat arches. There is a three-course brick band at the first floor. The first floor has a pair of similar sashes in flush wooden architraves with sills, along with smaller blocked windows to the centre and right. The left addition also features similar sashes. The eaves cornice is stepped and dentilled. The early section has a tall hipped roof with a pair of corniced ridge stacks at the left and right returns. The left addition has a hipped roof and a side wall stack, while the lower extension has a swept roof.

At the rear of the earlier section, there is a single 19th-century ground-floor sash, a brick first-floor band, and a pair of small 19th- to 20th-century first-floor casements, possibly in original openings. The historical context notes that High Melwood Hall, associated with the Stanhopes, was described as a "large stone building" within a moat and surrounded by a park, which was converted to a farm by the Ackloms after John Stanhope's death in 1705. The 19th-century alterations were likely made for the Skipwith family. The farmhouse is an unusual survival in a prominent position and was empty and disused at the time of resurvey.