High Trees Farmhouse

High Trees Farmhouse is a house that dates back to around 1500, originally designed as an open-hall house. It was remodeled in the 18th century, with later alterations and additions, including some interior remodeling in 1932 by Raymond Erith. The building is timber-framed, with the front covered in red brick laid in Flemish bond, while the rear is built of brick and rendered above, with the gable ends rebuilt in brick. It features red brick stacks and a plain tile roof. The house has two storeys and an attic, with a five-bay frame and an original central open hall that was floored over in the 16th century. There are seven irregular window bays, with an off-centre half-glazed door set in a 20th-century timber porch. The sash windows, which have glazing bars, are framed in flush wood architraves and sit under flat gauged brick arches. One window on the right has Gothick glazing. The roof is steeply pitched and has end and off-centre ridge stacks. The rear of the house includes 20th-century extensions that are of no special interest, along with two 19th-century sashes with glazing bars and 20th-century casements, as well as two gabled dormers with casements.

Inside, the entrance hall features moulded ceiling beams and joists, with a section of a moulded and brattished dais beam exposed to the right. The interior was remodeled by Erith in an 18th-century style, including panelling and a staircase, with plaster cornices in the ground floor rooms. There is a further staircase at the rear of the stack. Some of the framing is exposed on the first floor, including a wall plate and a jowled post with a hollow chamfer and a mortice for an arch brace leading to a hollow-chamfered cambered tie beam. In the attic, there is a hall crown post in the fourth bay, which is an octagonal post on a base with a moulded capital, braced to the purlin and collar. This area has been somewhat damaged due to a later partition wall that has since been removed. There is a studded partition to the left that incorporates an unmoulded crown post, and beyond this wall, the collar purlin is truncated. The remaining bays to the right feature unmoulded crown posts.