Higher Boden Farmhouse And Adjoining Walls

Higher Boden Farmhouse and the adjoining walls are likely from the 18th century. The building features painted rubble and cob walls, slate sills, and oak lintels. It has steep asbestos slate roofs with raised eaves that were once thatched, along with cast iron ogee gutters. There are brick chimneys on the gable ends and a lateral brick chimney on the left-hand rear wall. The farmhouse has an irregular L-shaped plan with a service wing at a right angle to the middle of the rear, likely all part of the original design.

The central section consists of two rooms with an entrance lobby and stairway in between. The right-hand room, which has a gable stack, is probably the hall or kitchen, while the left-hand room is likely an inner parlour with a stack and window at the rear, and the best parlour is in the wing that projects at a right angle in front. The unheated rear wing, built partly into the bank, was probably used as a pantry or dairy. There is also a lean-to room, likely from the 19th century, attached to the right side of the kitchen.

The farmhouse is two storeys tall and has a regular two-window front facing southeast, with the parlour wing projecting from the left side. The doorway is positioned near the angle, with a window above a four-panel door. The kitchen window is on the right, and the parlour windows on the right-hand wall of the wing are wider than the windows above. The windows are early 19th-century 16-pane hornless sashes. The interior has not been inspected.

A tall rubble wall with slate coping and clay ridge tiles surrounds the garden at the front, with a slightly irregular plan due to early 19th-century alterations to align with the right-hand wall of the lean-to. A granite cider crusher, complete with a wheel, remains at the rear right side of the house. This farmhouse has an unusual but efficient layout designed for its function. The interior may hold further interest.