Higher Kitcott Farmhouse Including Adjoining Stables

Higher Kitcott Farmhouse, including adjoining stables, is a farmhouse that likely dates from the 16th or 17th century and was altered around the mid-19th century when a kitchen and stables were added. The building is constructed of rubble and cob, rendered and whitewashed, with a painted corrugated-iron roof and 19th-century brick stack shafts.

The layout features a single room depth with a three-room-and-through-passage plan, where the lower end is to the left. The lower room and through-passage were combined in the 19th century to create a large room. The central hall has a rear lateral stack, and a passageway was inserted between the hall and the inner room, which includes a 19th-century straight-flight staircase. The inner room has an axial gable end fireplace. At right angles to the lower end, there is a high single-storey kitchen wing with attached stables.

The exterior is two storeys high and has an asymmetrical four-window range, primarily featuring 19th-century 20-pane sash windows, with a 20th-century two-light casement to the left of the ground floor. There are two door openings: a six-panelled 19th-century door to the right and a 19th-century plank door to the left in the angle of the projecting wing. The rear of the building is windowless. The attached short range of stables has a small opening with plank doors.

The interior was inaccessible at the time of the survey but has been significantly refurbished with 18th and 19th-century joinery, and the fireplaces have been blocked by modern grates. There is a dairy on the ground floor at the lower end with slate shelves. The roof shows evidence of a cruck truss over the hall section, featuring a collar beam, with an 18th-century roof structure above. This cruck truss is the only one that appears to remain, while the rest of the roof is believed to be from the 18th century with raised eaves.