Higher Fisherton Farmhouse Including Front Garden Railings

Higher Fisherton Farmhouse is a farmhouse that likely dates from the 17th century and was extended to the rear in the late 17th century or early 18th century. It features painted roughcast rendered stone and some cob, with a slate roof that has gable end rubble stacks with offsets. The building has a nearly symmetrical two-room plan, with heated rooms on each side of a wide through-passage that contains the staircase. A kitchen wing was probably added to the rear of the right-hand room and through-passage in the late 17th or early 18th century, creating an overall L-shaped plan. The farmhouse is two storeys high and has a three-window range with 20th-century three-light casements, each with three panes per light. There is a lean-to slate roof over the porch, which has a four-panelled door with the upper two panels glazed.

Inside, the farmhouse has been largely altered in the 19th century, but most of the joinery from that period remains intact. The right-hand room features a ceiling beam and bressumer with broad chamfers, while the beams in the left-hand room are boxed in. There is one 17th-century stop-chamfered door surround with a chamfer over the right-hand room, and the dairy fittings are intact. Although there is no access to the main roof space, the feet of three trusses with straight heavy principals suggest that the 17th-century roof structure may still be present. The front garden features cast iron railings made by T. Lake of Barnstaple.