High Folly

High Folly is a house dating to the 17th century, with alterations made in the 19th century. The house is timber-framed and plastered, with a thatched roof. It has an L-shaped plan, consisting of three bays aligned northeast-southwest, with a chimney stack against the southeast wall of the middle bay's northeast end, and a single-bay northwest wing. 19th-century external chimney stacks are on the northeast and southwest walls. The house has two storeys. The northwest elevation has a halved door at the front of a tiled gabled porch, three 20th-century casement windows, and two more windows on the first floor. Inside, the house features plain, chamfered axial and transverse beams, with face-halved and bladed scarfs in the wall plates. Close studding is exposed in one internal wall. A cambered tiebeam with step stops has been re-used. There is a large wood-burning hearth with a blocked aperture for a bread oven, and an inserted hearth on the first floor. The house was divided into cottages in the 19th century and has since been re-combined.