High House

High House dates from the mid-18th century, with alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. The house is constructed of brick and stone, with modern slate roofs. The front facade is now covered in a modern cement render.

The house is aligned roughly east-west, with extensions on its west and north sides; the northern, lean-to extensions are not included in the listing. The principal part of the house is two storeys and three bays, with a hipped roof. The front facade features a central door within a slightly projecting bay. This bay, and the window above it, have moulded, eared architraves, with the door having a projecting keystone and a pediment above. A small pediment with an oculus window sits at the apex of the central bay. The flanking windows have cambered heads, and the elevation is framed by flat pilasters at each end.

The end walls are painted brick, and the rear elevation is rendered, with lean-to extensions (excluded from the listing) and two dormer windows in the roof. A western extension has a large catslide roof and is built of a mix of brick and stone, featuring a canted bay window at its western end. The main entrance is through a modern porch set into the re-entrant angle between the house and the west extension.

The present main entrance opens via a 19th-century timber boarded door into a large kitchen, with a smaller living room adjacent. The living room contains a large hearth which may have once housed a range. The main block of the house has been altered, obscuring the original layout at ground floor level; the central corridor has been removed, leaving the western half as one large space with a flagged floor. A smaller, eastern room, reinstated after 20th-century remodelling, has a modern concrete floor and a recessed cupboard with some carved timber decoration.

The first floor is accessed via a 20th-century stair in an excluded extension. Within the original part of the building, wide timber floorboards and 19th-century fireplaces remain in the two main rooms. The upper part of the original stair survives within a timber casing with arched openings. The stair has a moulded handrail and timber balusters arranged in a square pattern; plain stick balusters are at attic level. The rooms on this floor have exposed timber framing to the partition walls, and truncated dragon beams at each corner of the roof structure.