Higher Woolsgrove Including Adjoining Summerhouse And Cob Garden Walls To South West

Higher Woolsgrove is a house that may date back to the 17th century or earlier, but it was heavily remodeled in the late 19th century. The structure features plastered cob on rubble footings, with rubble stacks topped with 19th-century brick, and has a thatched roof. It is an L-shaped building with a three-room main block facing southwest and a rear kitchen wing at the right end, adjacent to the road. The house has two storeys and a vaguely symmetrical three-window front.

On the ground floor, there are three late 19th-century French windows with panelled lower sections, and the main door is located to the right of centre. This door features two long panels and an overlight with glazing bars, framed by a plain door case that has oak and acorn motifs in the top corners. There is also a door to a store at the left end. A glass-roofed verandah spans the front of the house, supported by pairs of circular cast iron shafts with simply shaped wooden spandrels, and there is simple crestwork over the roof against the wall.

The first-floor casements are topped with thatched gables that include shaped bargeboards. Although the layout suggests an earlier core, no earlier features are visible inside, which mainly showcases late 19th-century elements.

To the left of the front, a plastered cob wall on rubble footings with a pitched thatched roof serves as the northwest garden wall. Near the house, this wall breaks to the northwest, where it includes a small late 19th-century summerhouse with a conical thatched roof supported by rustic timber posts. The walls and spandrels of the arched doorway to the summerhouse are filled with trelliswork. Another similar high cob wall extends southwest from the right end of the house, separating the garden from the road.