High House Farmhouse

High House Farmhouse is a tall brick house built around 1700, featuring an earlier timber-framed wing of uncertain date to the east. The building has two storeys and dormers, with colour-washed brick. It includes five early 18th century sashed windows with flush cased frames and thick glazing bars, each containing 18 lights. The central doorcase is notable for its elaborate shell hood supported by richly carved console brackets and a wreathed pulvinated frieze; currently, it frames an early sash window. The house has a wood modillioned eaves cornice and three flat-topped sashed dormers, topped by a tall half-hipped roof.

The eastern wing is two storeys, timber-framed and rendered, featuring two 3-light windows with pointed lights similar to those of The Old Anchor. The lower window has a flat cornice top. In the eastern bay, there is a projecting two-storey porch with a window of two pointed lights above the entrance, which has a segmental-headed opening and an old two-panel door. The roof is covered with old tiles. The eastern return of the main block has a simple door with an 18th-century hood on brackets.

The rear of the house is somewhat similar to the front, with the main block featuring a central doorway with a flat hood on carved brackets and five sash windows, but no dormers. The interior is virtually complete and original, fully panelled on both the ground and first floors, with bolection moulded panelling in the rear rooms at both levels. Rich cornices are present throughout, and panelled powder rooms exist between the front and rear rooms on both levels and beneath the stairs on the ground floor. Bolection moulded chimney pieces are found on the first floor, and the front rooms at all levels have corner fireplaces. The original staircase features cut strings and pairs of barleysugar twist balusters for each tread, and there is a Rococo plasterwork ceiling in the ground floor front room, making this a remarkable survival of fine quality.