High Chimney Farmhouse

High Chimney Farmhouse is a farmhouse that dates back to the 15th or early 16th century, with alterations from the 17th century and significant rebuilding in 1983. The structure is timber framed with red brick infilling, and the ground floor features red brick laid in Flemish bond. It has a plain tile roof and is designed in the Wealden style, consisting of four timber-framed bays, including a two-bay open hall and storeyed end bays. The left end bay was non-extant by 1983 and has since been replaced. The building stands at two storeys, with the jetty of the storeyed right end bay cut back flush with the hall facade, likely during the 17th or 18th century. There is evidence of a front jetty for the former left end bay. The farmhouse displays exposed principal posts and midrails, with the midrail of the left hall bay positioned higher. The right hall bay features an additional rail, possibly an inner wall-plate or window-head, along with various intermediate rails and studs. The roof is hipped, and there is a multiflue brick stack on the front slope of the roof in the shorter right hall bay.

The fenestration is irregular, with three two-light casements—one in each bay except for the right hall bay. There is a boarded door located in a 20th-century brick porch with a gabled plain tile roof, situated at the left end bay, and another door in a brick lean-to at the right gable end. A short later 20th-century brick rear return wing is attached to the right, with a roof hipped to the rear.

Inside, the left end-of-hall beam is moulded and brattished, morticed for a spear towards the rear end. A similarly moulded and brattished beam is found at the right end of the hall, with mortices indicating the presence of a pair of central doors and another towards the rear. The right end bay contains a plain-chamfered axial beam morticed for a partition, along with broad close-set unchamfered joists. The principal posts have shaped jowls, and there is a plain crown post with foot braces at the left end of the hall. The central tie-beam is non-extant. The window cill is morticed for an eight-light diamond mullion window, which has been repositioned in the rear wall of the left hall bay. An inserted floor in the left hall bay features a moulded axial beam, a moulded cross-beam across the stack, and chamfered joists with heart stops. The rebuilt brick fireplace is constructed in English bond, with a wooden bressumer and a bread oven extending across the former cross-passage.