High Canons

High Canons is a country house built around 1800, with extensions added in 1806 and later alterations made in the 20th century. The house is constructed of brick, which is stuccoed and whitewashed, and features slate hipped roofs. The overall shape is nearly rectangular with a half H layout, where the arms have been extended later.

The building has two storeys and a five-bay front. It includes a large ground floor tetrastyle prostyle Tuscan porch with round-headed windows and pilasters on the returns. The entrance has an architrave and is flanked by pilaster strips on the first floor. The windows are architraved glazing bar sashes, with those on the ground floor being taller. There is a plinth, a continuous mutule cornice, and a coped parapet, with a small step back from the central three bays. The house has two cross axial stacks.

On the right return, there are five bays with glazing bar sashes featuring gauged brick flat arched heads. Relieving arches create a blind arcade with an impost band on the ground floor, and there is a cross axial stack to the left of centre. The left return, or garden front, has four bays. The ground floor features a projecting Tuscan loggia, which is octastyle in antis, with French windows. The first floor has glazing bar sashes, and there is a triple stack with a single base and cornice at the centre front.

At the rear, there are two slightly later and lower extensions, each with three bays. To the left, there is a repositioned verandah with a coved roof supported by cast-iron colonnettes, which contains two recesses with pilastered jambs. The ground floor has a central French window with glazing bar sashes. The triple stacks are similar to those on the main block. There is also a further conservatory extension and stables attached to the right extension, featuring a segmental arch over the carriage entrance. The interior has been remodelling in the 20th century.