High House

High House is a farmhouse, originally dated 1606, but extensively rebuilt, probably in the 19th century. It is constructed of coursed squared stone with a stone slate roof. The building is two storeys high and has three bays, with a projecting right-hand bay that extends under the roofline. The ground floor windows in the second and third bays have double-chamfered mullions. The left-hand bay features a stop-chamfered quoined doorway, with a dated lintel, set within a gabled porch. The porch has a moulded doorway, pigeon holes with ledges, kneelers, ashlar coping, and a cross finial. To the left of the doorway are windows of 2 lights (with mullions removed) and 3 lights. On the first floor of this bay are two 2-light windows connected by an inserted 2-light window. The central bay has windows of 3 and 6 lights, with a king mullion, and an inserted window all under a continuous hoodmould; on the first floor, a 19th-century window is located to the left of a 5-light window. The right-hand bay has a 6-light window with a king mullion and a broken hoodmould, incorporating a 19th-century doorway. There is a small square chamfered light in the left return. Kneelers and ashlar coping are present, with a finial to the right gable. Corniced stacks are located at the left end, and ridge stacks are situated between bays 1 and 2 and bays 2 and 3.

On the rear elevation, from left, a 3-light window, a 2-light opening converted into a doorway with a 2-light window above, a later single-storey outshut, two 2-light windows to each floor (with mullions removed), a circa-1980 gabled open porch masking a stop-chamfered quoined doorway, two 2-light windows (the left one converted into a doorway and now a window). The right return has a small square light on the left and a 3-light window (now 2-light) on the ground floor; a similar window is located above, centrally. The left return has a 4-light double-chamfered mullion window on the first floor.

The interior features a through-passage with walls of large stone blocks, the right-hand wall including a chamfered ledge at the top, similar to that found at High Lee. The central housebody has spliced stop-chamfered spine-beams, indicating the presence of a former bressumer and firehood, and a later, probably 17th-century, stone fireplace with a massive corbelled lintel and moulded cornice.