High House

High House is a house dated 1726, built from squared and coursed carstone with high-quality red brick dressings. It has two storeys and attics, featuring five bays. The ground floor has four sash windows and the first floor has five sash windows, all with glazing bars. The building displays brick rustication and flat rubbed brick arches, with rustication at the ends and brick pilasters that slightly project from the facade. There is a moulded eaves cornice and a brick plat-band on the first floor. A central porch from the early to mid-19th century is stucco rendered, with angle pilasters, an entablature, and a parapet, along with part-glazed double doors. The house has three attic dormers with two-light casements that have glazing bars, topped with moulded triangular pedimented gables at the north and south, and a segmental pediment at the centre. The building features coped parapets, an end stack at the north, and a 20th-century concrete pantile roof. At the rear, there is a two-storey wing from the late 18th or early 19th century, constructed of stone with brick dressings, containing sashes with glazing bars and a 20th-century pantiled roof. The former ballroom and kitchen wing has been demolished. In the early 20th century, High House was used as a co-educational school founded by Harry Loweninson, a friend of journalist Robert Blatchford, who worked as the groundsman here.