Highbarn Hall Farmhouse

Highbarn Hall Farmhouse is a house that dates from the early 14th century, with 17th century and later alterations. It is timber framed and plastered, with a roof made of handmade red plain tiles. The building features a two-bay hall facing northeast, accompanied by a contemporary service crosswing on the right and a possible crosswing on the left, which now forms a continuous rectangular range. There is a single-storey lean-to extension of painted brick at the right end.

The farmhouse has two axial stacks, with the one on the right being an insertion from around 1600 in the open hall. It is two storeys high with one lit attic. The front has a two-window range of 18th century three-light windows with wrought iron casements and rectangular leading. The ground floor windows have 18th or 19th century wide boarded hinged shutters, each featuring three heart-shaped perforations. Additionally, there are three 20th century casements on the ground floor and one on the first floor.

The entrance features an off-centre six-panel door with an 18th century Tuscan porch that has fluted pilasters and a dentilled segmental pediment and roof. The pediment is inscribed with "M I E 1727". The roof is a gambrel style, half-hipped at the left end and hipped at the right end, with one 20th century casement in a gabled dormer.

On the left elevation, two similar 18th century windows are arranged in a two-storey splayed bay. A floor was inserted in the hall around 1600, along with a contemporary wide wood-burning hearth that faces to the left and has a substantial mantel beam. At the right end of the hall, two original service doorways remain, featuring double ogee heads, and there is a blocked unglazed window. The wallplate shows a splayed scarf with undersquinted abutments. Inside, there are numerous doors and cupboards of good 18th century craftsmanship. The farmhouse may possibly be identified as Simnel's Farm, as noted in the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England.