The Cart Lodge At Highfields

The Cart Lodge at Highfields is a 17th-century cart lodge that has been converted into a house, with the conversion completed in 1986. The building is timber framed, primarily covered with weatherboarding, and features some 20th-century red brick in English bond. It has a roof made of handmade red plain tiles and consists of four bays plus a central short bay, facing southwest, with two lean-to extensions at the rear. The structure is two storeys high, with a single-storey 20th-century extension on the left, which has a slate roof.

On the ground floor, there are three 20th-century casement windows, with two additional windows in lean-to half-dormers that replaced earlier slatted dormers, and one 20th-century rooflight set into the pitch of the roof. The entrance features a 20th-century six-panel door, with the top two panels being glazed, set within a recessed porch. The roof is hipped and includes two metal flues. The two rear lean-tos were converted from a single full-length lean-to that was originally roofed with corrugated asbestos.

The building has a heavy hardwood frame that is fully jointed and pegged, with binding beams tenoned to ledged posts and heavy joists. Original ogee grown knees are visible above the binding beams. The roof structure consists of side purlins with intermediate collars. The entire frame is raised on concrete stylobates. The Cart Lodge is included for its group value.