Higher Hearson Farmhouse

Higher Hearson Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 17th century, which was extended and remodeled in the 18th century. It is constructed of stone rubble with a slate roof featuring gable ends. The building has an axial stone stack at the front range with weatherings and drips, along with two tall lateral rubble stacks at the front, which have been heightened in brick. The left stack has a tall clay tapering pot with smoke funnels, while there is a small brick stack at the right end and another brick stack at the right gable end of the rear range.

The farmhouse has a parallel range plan, with the front range designed as a three-room through-passage layout. The parlour is located to the left of the cross-passage, with the hall to the right, and possibly a dairy or service area added at the right end. The parallel gable-ended range added to the rear primarily serves as the kitchen and service area. The building is two storeys high and features a four-window range of half dormers with horned four-paned sashes. Slated canopies extend over the ground floor openings, with one side featuring a 20th-century window and the other showcasing a 17th-century through-passage doorway. This doorway has a ledged three-plank door with cover strips.

Inside, the parlour boasts ovolo moulded beams with elaborate carved scroll-stops on the ceiling and fireplace lintel. The hall contains a single plain chamfered beam with keel stops, and the fireplace has been infilled. There is a dais bench at the upper end of the hall, featuring a carved bench end and tongue-and-groove plank panelling at the rear. A door in the hall has a sunk chamfer surround with ovolo moulding and bulbous stops. An old plank door with cover strips leads to the inner room, which has a slightly cambered arch and a ledged four-plank door. The inner room features scroll-stop chamfered beams, and the chamber above has an ovolo moulded fireplace lintel with elaborate scroll stops. Traces of a moulded plaster cornice can be seen in the principal bedroom, and there is a scroll-stopped chamfered door surround to the chamber over the parlour. The hall and parlour are supported by two 17th-century trusses with lap-jointed collars, and there are no signs of smoke-blackening. The roof of the rear range was replaced in the 20th century.