High Barn

High Barn is a house dating from 1902, designed by Sir Robert Lorimer for the Hon. Stuart Playdell Bouverie, with later additions from 1926 by Walter Godfrey. It is constructed of coursed Bargate stone block with tile-on-edge dressings and plain tiled roofs, with eaves that weep outwards. The house comprises a rectangular main block with parallel, projecting rectangular ranges to the front, and a lower wing canted at a 45-degree angle to the rear left. The main house has two storeys with attics, while the service ranges and left wing are single-storey with attics. Corbelled cross-ridge stacks are prominent: one in the centre of each front range, two on the main house, and two on the side wing.

The front entrance is recessed in the centre, with projecting ranges flanking it. The left-hand range has three wood-framed, leaded casement windows on the first floor, a through-eaves flat-roofed dormer, and an attic casement under a large gable. The majority of windows are under tile-on-edge lintels, with five windows across the ground floor; the centre ones are mullioned and transomed. The right-hand range has irregular fenestration, including a between-floors window to the left, and a small casement on each floor of a hip-roofed square projection. An angle bay window is recessed and splayed to the left, featuring continuous mullioned and transomed leaded fenestration on both floors, with a lead apron decorated with heraldic devices. The central recessed bay has a projecting break with a scrolled and shaped pediment, tile-on-edge quoining, and small segmental mouldings on the eaves parapet, accompanied by horizontal tile bands below. This bay also has a leaded, mullioned and transomed window on each floor; a central stone panel on the first floor displays heraldic devices. A leaded, egg-shaped attic window on the gable is decorated with a "sunburst" pattern of radiating bands of tile-on-edge detail. Double doors are arched, set within a smooth ashlar surround under a decorated tile-on-edge head.

The right-hand return front features a hipped roof with a gablet and a hip extending over a wooden balcony supported by four braces. The rear return wall incorporates an angle bay with a dated 1902 lead apron between the upper and lower windows, accessed by an arched entrance below. The rear elevation displays a battering angle buttress to the left, a double arched porch recess on the return and rear walls, and a square bay under a hip roof to the left of centre. The wing to the side is canted, with a keel-shaped gable to the rear and two to the front of the service range. The architectural style shows a strong influence from the houses of Edwin Lutyens in nearby Munstead.