High Gables

High Gables is a farmhouse, now a house, likely built in the early 17th century with later additions and alterations, and extended around 1890. The building features a roughcast timber frame and a graded slate roof. It has an L-plan layout, consisting of a hall range with two framed bays and a single-bay gabled cross-wing that slightly projects to the right. To the left of the hall range is a two-storey addition from the late 19th century. The structure is one storey and attic high, with irregular fenestration that includes a mix of 19th and early 20th century casements, fixed-light windows, and four-paned sashes. One sash window has tested lights, and there is a window to the left of the hall range with another in a gabled half-dormer directly above. The first floor of the cross-wing has one window, with two below it and another in the hall range immediately to the left of a lean-to, which likely marks the original entrance. A wide flat-roofed 20th-century dormer is present in the roof slope, aligned with a large red brick axial ridge stack that has moulded capping. The current entrance is located on the right wall of the cross-wing, which features projecting double-purlin ends at the gables. At the rear, there is a low lean-to that was formerly a dairy.

Inside, the ground-floor room of the cross-wing has two deep-chamfered cross beams and flat heavy joists, all with straight-cut stops. There is a massive chamfered wooden lintel above an infilled inglenook fireplace to the left, and steps lead down to the dairy in the back wall. A doorway with a shaped head leads to the hall range, where the entire right bay, except for the passage, is occupied by the stack. The left room contains an inglenook fireplace, a deep-chamfered cross beam, and heavy joists. The hall range has a double-purlin roof with collar and tie beam trusses that are partly exposed, while the cross-wing has a similar roof with V-struts from the collar to the rear gable. The late 19th-century addition is noted as not having special architectural interest.