High House

High House is a former farmhouse dating to the 16th century, built in two phases. A later single-storey kitchen wing was added to the rear. The building is timber-framed and rendered, with a thatched roof. It is two storeys high and has a two-cell, lobby-entry plan. The windows are casement types: the ground floor has two 20th-century three-light windows; the first floor has two two-light windows, and a small 16th-century window with cavetto mullions. A gabled porch, plastered and thatched, has a late 19th-century four-panel door. There is an internal stack, with a moulded base to the shaft. The gable end on the right overhangs.

The interior is of fine quality, with much good workmanship. In the left-hand ground floor room, complete close studding remains visible, with no middle rail. The bridging beam has two cavetto moulds and run-out stops, supported by solid curved braces rising from buttress-shafts on the wall posts, both the braces and shafts having a single cavetto moulding. The end cornices of this room are similarly moulded. The joists are heavy and closely-spaced with chamfered edges and run-out stops. A good four-centre arched moulded lintol sits above the fireplace, with the mouldings turned down at the ends. The chamber above this room has reverse-curved braces and blocked original windows. The roof is of a queen-post design.

The right-hand ground floor room has an axial bridging beam with a recessed soffit and a single cavetto mould, continued onto the end cornices. The joists are also cavetto-moulded with run-out stops, and there is much close studding. The first floor chamber has intact studding and an original gable end window with large cavetto mullions. The roof over this cell was not examined.