Higher Cottage Including Outhouse Adjoining To North West

Higher Cottage, including the adjoining outhouse to the north-west, is a former farmhouse that likely dates from the 17th century, with possible earlier origins and various later alterations. The building is constructed of plastered cob and stone rubble, featuring a hall stack with a red sandstone chimney shaft and other stacks made of red brick. The roof is thatched.

The main house has a three-room and cross passage plan, with the south-east end serving as an inner room that has a projecting end stack, which is a later addition. The hall includes a projecting front lateral stack, while the rear of the passage is now blocked by a bathroom. The service end contains a kitchen with a projecting rear lateral stack and an outbuilding at the north-west end.

The exterior of the main house is two storeys high with an irregular three-window front. The central window, located above the front door, is likely an 18th-century three-light casement with flat-faced mullions and old leaded glass in the outer light. The remaining windows are 19th and 20th-century casements with glazing bars. The passage front doorway, situated to the right of the hall stack, features an 18th-century plank door with an applied six-panel front beneath a 20th-century hood. There are also 20th-century garage doors on the outbuilding at the right end. The roof is half-hipped on the left side and hipped on the right.

The interior shows little sign of antiquity, with plain carpentry details visible where exposed, suggesting that older features may be hidden. Higher Cottage is part of a particularly attractive group of listed buildings in an unspoilt village, adjacent to Cockington Park.