Highfield House

Highfield House is a large building from the early to late 18th century, featuring three impressive symmetrical facades. It has a continuous blocking course and cornice, with the north front consisting of three storeys, while the west and south fronts have two storeys due to later alterations. The roof is hipped and covered with red tiles.

The north front is made of colourwashed brickwork in Flemish bond and includes three windows, with a coupled window in the middle of the second floor. It has a plinth and stone dressings around the window openings, including lead, side bands, a cill on the second floor, a cornice on brackets, architraves, and cills on brackets for the first and ground floors. The windows are sashes in exposed frames.

A mid-19th century Bath stone porch features arched windows in the side walls, which end as pilasters, and has two columns in antis, all designed in a Doric order. The doorway has a plain architrave and is flanked by narrow windows.

The west front has a window arrangement of 3.3.3, with the outer groups set within segmental bows. The cornice is enhanced by a frieze and a thin architrave band. The openings in the brick walling have rubbed flat arches, with sashes set in reveals and ground-floor cills at plinth level. There is a central arched glazed doorway with an ornamental fanlight within a rectangular frame.

The south front features a slightly projecting centre with a deep three-bay Ionic portico, which has coupled outer columns and tall French windows. The outer units have a circular recess within a square opening on the first floor, while at the ground floor, this becomes a niche on the west side with an urn, and the east side has been altered by an inserted window below a roundel. Above the portico, there are three light sash windows.