Highworth Farmhouse

Highworth Farmhouse is a late 15th or early 16th century four-bay open hall house that has been adapted into a smoke bay house, featuring a dairy outshut in the north-east corner. The building is two storeys high and constructed with timber framing, which has painted back infilling. It has square framing with diagonal braces and a hipped tiled roof with gablets and a pentice. The farmhouse includes three casement windows and a roof supported by wind braces and clasped purlins, with smoke-blackened rafters. There is a cross passage located behind the chimney, and the partition wall between the hall and solar features matching parallel arch braces. The dairy outshut retains its original stone floor, while the ceiled-over hall boasts fine elm floorboards. An inserted chimney includes a bacon loft, and the ingle nook hearth, which has a bread oven and salt cupboard, was painted by the late 19th century Surrey artist Binscombe Gardner. This farmhouse is noted as one of the most unaltered late medieval houses in Charlwood.