Higher Menadew Farmhouse

Higher Menadew Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating to circa 1840, with an addition from the mid to late 19th century. It incorporates earlier materials from a former farmhouse that stood on or near the site, and has undergone later alterations and additions. The farmhouse is constructed of granite rubble, with painted and partly rendered surfaces. It has a slate roof with ridge tiles and gable ends, and gable end brick stacks.

The original house has a double-depth plan with a central entrance, a larger room to the front left which was likely a parlour, and a smaller room to the front right. A kitchen is located to the rear left, with a stair-box behind the entrance passage. An unheated dairy and scullery are situated to the rear right. The front rooms and kitchen are each heated by gable end stacks. To the right of the original house is a one-room-wide, two-storey addition, also heated by a gable end stack.

The front of the farmhouse is symmetrical, with three windows on each floor. The upper floor has three 12-pane sashes with external shutters. The ground floor has a central 4-panelled door with a glazed upper section and a porch supported by two granite piers with a hipped roof, as well as 16-pane sashes to the left and right. All windows are 19th century, with the exception of the ground floor sash on the left, which has been replaced with a 20th-century version.

Set back to the right, at a lower roof level and rendered, is a two-storey, two-window addition. The upper floor of this addition has two 12-pane sashes, and the ground floor has two 2-light casements. The left side of the farmhouse has a 4-pane light at first floor level. The right gable end is rendered with a 2-light casement at ground floor level, providing ventilation to the scullery. The rear of the addition has two doors and a 12-pane sash at first floor level. The rear of the original house has three 12-pane sashes at first floor level, and a 20-pane sash at ground floor level.

Attached to the rear of the scullery is a single-storey lean-to, probably dating to circa 1850, with a slate roof and a 20th-century window to the rear. A door on the left side of the lean-to has a re-used wooden jamb from a 17th-century doorway, with a heart and roundel stop and mouldings, set upside down. Inside the lean-to, a 2-light casement provides access to the scullery, and a rear door leads to the kitchen. The interior of the front rooms has panelled shutters to the windows and 20th-century fireplaces. A straight staircase, dating to the mid-19th century, is located within the stair-box behind the entrance passage.