Highfield House

Highfield House is a timber-framed house with a skin of Flemish bond brick and a plain tiled roof, located on Hasketon Boulge Road. The building comprises three main phases of construction spanning from the 16th century through the mid-19th century.

The entrance front reveals the complexity of the building's development. On the left stands the early 17th-century range, refaced in 19th-century brick. Rising higher to its right is the early 19th-century portion, from which a lower mid-19th-century gabled wing projects. This wing has two bays with ground floor sash windows of 3x4 panes with cambered heads and matching first floor windows, with decorative bargeboards to the gable. A recessed entrance porch sits in the re-entrant angle at left, containing a 6-panel door with fanlight. Immediately to the left of this is a late 19th-century lean-to with crow-stepped gablet.

The 16th-century range lies at the far left and features a 20th-century classical door surround with a 6-panel door topped by a pedimental head, which masks an earlier flat-arched head of rubbed brick. To the left of this is a 2-light 20th-century casement with cement lintel. A blocked window with splayed head sits to the right, alongside a doorway now partially blocked and containing a 2-light 20th-century casement. At first floor level, a 2-light metal-framed 20th-century casement sits at right, with a single-light casement to its left. A cogged band runs below the eaves. The 17th-century portion has an axial ridge stack at right of centre, while the mid-19th-century wing has a stack at the rear of its ridge and a further one at right.

The right-hand side shows a 2-light casement with 20th-century metal frames and cement lintel at ground floor left, and in the early 19th-century portion to its left, a ground floor 3-light 20th-century window. A band of 3 bricks depth divides the floors, with a further 3-light 20th-century metal-framed window at first floor level with cement lintel. The left-hand gable end has two 2-light casements at ground floor and a 2-light casement at first floor level.

The rear elevation shows the 17th-century portion with a projecting wing to its right having a single-pitch roof. To the left of this is a cambered-headed doorway with glazed door and a 2-light casement at first floor with cambered head. A slightly projecting portion of walling to the left contains a 2-light ground floor casement with cambered head and a matching first floor window. Above these at attic level are two raking dormer windows, each with 2 casement lights. The early 19th-century portion, flush with the refaced 16th-century range, has a band of 3 bricks depth between floors. At ground floor right is a 6-panel door with an added pedimental porch supported on brackets. A horned sash window of 2x2 panes sits to its left, with two sash windows at first floor level of 2x4 panes and two further sash windows of 3x4 panes with flat-arched heads.

Interior features include massive chamfered ceiling beams in the 16th-century portion and a baffle-entry plan with winder staircases and arched braces supported on jowled wall posts. Pargetting in one first floor room shows a fleur de lys in a moulded plaster surround. The early 19th-century portion contains a staircase with stick balusters, moulded newel and moulded handrail, along with ribbed door surrounds with paterae to the upper corners.