Higher Relowas Farmhouse

Higher Relowas Farmhouse is an 18th-century farmhouse that was extended in the 19th century. The building features mixed rubble on the ground floor and gable ends, with cob on part of the first floor, and is painted and rendered at the front. Some granite dressings are present. The original section has a steep concrete tile roof, while the right-hand 19th-century part has a lower-pitched scantle slate roof. Brick chimneys are located over the original gable ends, one on the left and one on the right, as well as another over the right-hand gable end.

The farmhouse has a T-shaped three-room plan, with a 19th-century one-room extension on the right and an outbuilding service wing at right angles to the rear. There are also two lean-tos sheathed in corrugated iron between the rear wing and the outbuilding service wing. The original three-room section includes two front rooms, the right-hand one being wider and likely serving as the hall or kitchen. A cross passage leads to the integral rear service wing, which consists of an unheated service room and presumably the stair, and originally had an attic room.

The farmhouse is two storeys high with an overall four-window front. The front is nearly symmetrical with a three-window arrangement and a nearly central doorway on the left, alongside a one-window front of the 19th-century extension on the right. The original doorway features a top-glazed door within a 20th-century glazed lean-to porch. The window above the doorway and the one to the first floor on the right are early 19th-century 24-pane three-light casements, while the other front windows are from the 20th century. The rear wall of the original gable-ended wing has two late 18th-century to early 19th-century windows with horizontal glazing bars; the left-hand one on the ground floor is a two-light casement, and the right-hand one, likely for the stair, is a wider three-light casement. There are also two blocked window openings in the middle of the gable, one above the other. The interior was not accessible at the time of the survey, but the farmhouse is noted as an interesting three-room T-plan structure that remains essentially unaltered at the rear.