Higher Pithayne Farmhouse Including Front Garden Walls Adjoining To South-East

Higher Pithayne Farmhouse is an early 19th-century farmhouse that has undergone some modernization around 1970. It is constructed from plastered local stone and flint rubble, with some details in Hamstone ashlar. The farmhouse features stone rubble stacks topped with Hamstone ashlar chimney shafts and has a thatched roof. The building has a double depth plan, facing south-east, with a front and back room on either side of a central entrance hall. The staircase rises from the passage, and there are gable-end stacks at both ends of the house.

The exterior is symmetrical, featuring a three-window front with 20th-century casements that have glazing bars. The central doorway is framed by a Hamstone ashlar surround with flat Doric pilasters and flat coping, topped with an elliptical head that includes a fanlight over a six-panel door. The roof is gable-ended, with shaped kneelers and coping.

While the interior was not inspected during the survey, the owner noted that it had been extensively modernized around 1970, including the installation of a new staircase. The front garden is enclosed by a stone wall built at the same time as the house, made from roughly-squared blocks of local stone rubble laid in rough courses, topped with flat Hamstone coping. The wall features square-section terminal piers with Hamstone vase finials at each corner. The walls project outward in front of the outshots and ramp down to the corner piers, each containing a round-headed opening: a doorway on the right and a window with radial glazing bars on the left. Directly in front of the house's doorway are gate posts with vase finials that support a 19th-century iron gate.