Higher Binneford

Higher Binneford is a house that was formerly two or three cottages, dating from the late 17th century and extended in the 18th century. It was modernised between 1983 and 1984. The building is constructed of plastered cob on rubble footings, with cob or rubble stacks topped with 19th-century brick, and features a thatched roof.

The house has a gable-ended range facing southeast, consisting of one-room cottages with end stacks and an unheated room of uncertain function in between. It is two storeys high and has an overall five-window front featuring 19th and 20th-century wooden casements. The left and centre rooms have regular fenestration with two windows each. Originally, the doors were on the right side, but only the centre room door remains, now with a 20th-century porch. The alternate first-floor windows rise into the eaves. The eaves level drops at the right room, which is slightly recessed from the main front and includes a 19th-century three-light casement to the right of a doorway that is now blocked with a 20th-century casement. The first-floor 19th-century casement also rises into the eaves.

The right gable end features a massive projecting stack with a slate-roofed oven projection. At first-floor level, there is a tiny, triangular-headed wooden light to the right of the stack and to the left, a small late 17th-century wooden three-light chamfered mullion window with internal flat faces and beaded edges.

Inside, the right cottage dates from the late 17th century and contains a chamfered cross beam with straight cut stops and a side-pegged jointed cruck roof truss. The massive fireplace is blocked. The centre and left rooms have plain carpentry details, while the large end fireplace is exposed, made of granite and rubble with an oak lintel and a cloam oven to the right.