Higher Lodfin

This is a former farmhouse, dating to the early 17th century, with alterations to the front elevation in the 20th century. The building is constructed of stone rubble, with a cob wall on the left-hand side. The roof is covered in asbestos slate, formerly thatched, and gabled at the ends, featuring a right-hand end stack and an axial stack with stone shafts.

The original plan is unusual for the region, consisting of an open single depth with three rooms, and a lobby entrance positioned against the hall stack, rather than the more common three-room and through or cross-passage arrangement. The right-hand lower end is divided into two rooms, possibly originally unheated service areas with a later 18th-century stack. An unheated inner room is also present. A newel staircase is located in a turret to the rear of the hall.

The exterior presents an asymmetrical four-window front. It features 1,2 and 3-light 20th-century casement windows with glazing bars. A 20th-century front door is positioned to the right of centre, opening into the lobby. A modern entrance to the inner room is accessed through a 20th-century lean-to on the front, and an additional 20th-century doorway is located on the right-hand return, leading into the lower end room.

Internally, there is good survival of 17th-century carpentry and joinery. This includes four-plank and muntin screens: a short screen to the lobby entrance, a hall screen with chamfered muntins and a crank-headed doorframe, and a plainer lower end screen plastered over on its lower end side. A fine plank and muntin screen separates the inner room from the hall, incorporating a crank-headed doorframe to the inner room and chamfered, stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops on the hall side. A section of axial plank and muntin screen divides the lower end room into two. Cross beams in the lower end and hall are deeply chamfered with step scroll stops, while the inner room has a plainer cross beam with exposed joists. The fireplaces are likely 20th-century, with Dutch tiles in the lower end fireplace. The roof space, not inspected in 1986, was noted as probably 18th century by Hulland, with possible jointed cruck remains partly obscured on the first floor. Hulland has suggested a similarity between Higher Lodfin and Chilterne in Morebath, due to the shared plan form.

The building was a single dwelling until around 1815, then sub-divided into two farm cottages in the 19th century, before reverting to a single dwelling around 1950.