Higher Vulscombe

Higher Vulscombe is a farmhouse, likely remodelled in the mid-18th century from an earlier building. The walls are whitewashed cob on stone rubble footings, with a slate roof gabled at the ends. It has end stacks with brick shafts; one stack is at the end of the main range and contains the remains of a bread oven, suggesting the adjacent room may have been a kitchen. A second stack is present on a wing. The plan is an 'L' shape, with the main range two rooms wide and a narrow rear service area including a former dairy in a two-storey outshut. A central entrance leads into a lobby, and a staircase descends to the ground floor, dividing into three flights – two leading to the principal rooms on the first floor and a third accessing attic rooms in the outshut. A one-room-plan wing at a right angle to the main range appears to have functioned as a kitchen. Blocked windows and a doorway found during re-rendering at the right end of the main range suggest an earlier building core, with the outshut and wing being 18th-century additions.

The front of the house is symmetrical, with three bays and a central 20th-century gabled brick porch. It has a set of 19th-century two-light timber casement windows, each with six panes. The slate roof extends as a catslide over the outshut, which also has timber casements and a blocked rear doorway that gave access to the dairy.

Inside, the room on the left-hand side features stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops. Other interior features are from the 18th and 19th centuries, including open fireplaces with brick lintels and joinery. The main staircase has a handrail sunk into the wall, and a separate service staircase leads from the kitchen wing to the first floor of the outshut. Roof trusses in the main range are late 19th/early 20th-century collar rafter type, while those over the wing have "X" apexes and are pegged, indicating an 18th-century date.

The farmhouse is largely unaltered and notable for its late vernacular plan, which connects the entrance to the staircase and provides substantial service rooms and separate access. Higher Vulscombe is documented in the 18th century in the Cruwys Morchard Notebook, 1066-1874.