Higher Curry Farmhouse

Higher Curry Farmhouse is a farmhouse that has been converted into a private house, dating from the early to mid 17th century. It is constructed of rendered stone rubble and cob, topped with a rag slate roof that features gable ends, which extend over a later rear outshut with a catslide. The building has a brick end stack on the left and a projecting stone rubble end stack with a brick shaft on the right, as well as a brick axial stack on the rear slope.

The layout consists of a two-room plan with a cross or through passage, heated by the end stacks, with a larger hall kitchen on the left and a parlour on the right. A service extension was added across the rear, likely in the 18th century, and there is probably an 18th-century framed stair at the back of the passage.

The exterior features two storeys and a regular three-window front, with an entrance to the right of centre that has a 20th-century door and a porch probably from the late 19th century. The windows are 19th-century two-light casements, with some of the lights replaced, both on the ground and first floors.

Inside, the left-hand room has a fireplace with a chamfered lintel and ogee stops, along with a cloam oven. The beam above the left side of the passage is fairly large and chamfered, while the beams in the left-hand room have likely been replaced, probably in the 20th century. The ceiling in the passage and right-hand room is plastered, and there is a rare survival of what are likely original rebated floorboards made of elm and oak. The roof structure, dating from the late 17th century, features cambered collars that are roughly cut, partly halved lap-jointed, and pegged onto the face of the principals. This house remains a complete and unaltered example from the 17th century.