Higher Lodge

Higher Lodge is a house that was formerly a lodge to Offwell House, built around 1840. It is constructed from local stone and flint rubble, featuring a stone rubble stack with a cream-colored brick diagonal chimney shaft and a slate roof. The building has an L-shaped plan, with the main block facing north-west, containing the entrance hall and kitchen. The main living room is in a crosswing that projects forward from the left (north-east) end, with an axial stack that serves back-to-back fireplaces. The house is two storeys tall and designed in the Tudor Gothic style.

The exterior features a 1:1-window front. The gable end of the crosswing has a canted bay window on the ground floor, which contains narrow lights with chamfered reveals. Above this is a 2-light window with a hoodmould. The gable is adorned with cusped bargeboards and an apex finial. The main front has single light windows, with the ground floor window featuring a hoodmould and the first floor window having a gable above it, also with cusped bargeboards, resembling a smaller version of the crosswing gable. All windows have broad stucco architraves and chamfered reveals, and they contain late 19th century and 20th century casements with glazing bars. The front doorway, located next to the crosswing, is designed with a Tudor arch and is sheltered by a monopitch porch supported by plain posts. The interior has not been inspected.