Highwood Hall Farmhouse

Highwood Hall Farmhouse is a house dating from the early 17th century, with extensions and alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. It features a timber frame with brick additions, all rendered, and has applied sham timber framing. The roofs are tiled. The original layout was L-shaped, comprising three by two bays, with a projecting staircase wing that has been extended to create a square block with multiple gables. The house is two storeys high, with a two-bay entrance front. To the left of center is a large gable, which is the front end of the original bay cross wing extending to the rear, while a smaller, lower gable to the left is from the 20th century. There is a 20th-century projecting entrance porch and 20th-century leaded casements with three and four lights, along with sham framing and exposed plates and purlins in the gable. A large 17th-century stack with two flues, originally located on the left end wall, has been moved to the ridge of a later small gable. The left return features a low 20th-century block towards the front. The original stair wing is located at the center with an entrance. At the rear, there is a gable-ended block from the 19th or 20th century with two-light casements and sham framing. The right gable end has painted sham framing. Filling the inner angle of the L at the rear right is a block from the 19th or 20th century with three-light casements. There is also a one-storey hipped outshut at the rear. Inside, the ground floor features an ovolo moulded binding beam, original stairs, a moulded jowled post, braces in the walling, and a clasped purlin roof with windbraces.