Higher Oldclims

Higher Oldclims is a farmhouse, now a house, dating to 1817, with a later 19th or early 20th century addition. It is constructed of roughly coursed slate-stone with alternating granite angle quoins and dressings, and has a slate roof. The front has a slightly irregular three-window arrangement. The first floor has 20th-century casement windows with wooden lintels, while the ground floor has similar casements in early 19th century segmental-headed openings featuring voussoirs and projecting keystones. A roughly central six-panel door, with glazed upper panels, gives access to the house. An integral granite end stack with a dripstone is located on the right-hand side. The initials "PEM/1817" are scratched into the stone of the right gable end. Inside, the right-hand ground-floor room contains a large open granite fireplace with a chamfered wood lintel and a panelled wall cupboard on the left. A two-storey addition to the left, dated to the late 19th or early 20th century, is not considered to be of particular architectural interest.