Higher Cholwell Old Cholwell Old Cholwell (Or Higher Cholwell) Including Outbuilding Adjoining North

This is a farmhouse, dating from the early 17th century, with a later extension added in the late 17th or early 18th century, and an outbuilding likely of 17th or earlier origin. The original structure is built of rendered stone rubble, with an asbestos slate roof featuring gabled ends and a rear slope of slurried scantle slates. Rendered gable end stacks include one projecting stack on the right-hand side, featuring a tapered top with a dripstone. Initially a two-room plan, divided into a main hall to the left and a smaller parlour to the right, it incorporates a stair turret to the rear of the hall. A single-bay, two-story addition was constructed at the lower left end. The rear outbuilding creates an overall L-shaped plan.

The south front of the original house has three windows, with a further window to the left of the extension. Late 19th or early 20th century three-light casements with glazing bars are fitted. An old plank door, now with a 20th-century glazed porch, sits to the left of the original window range. A 20th-century glazed door provides access to the left extension. A slight projection in the wall plane indicates the position of stairs. The rear roof extends over the projecting square stair turret, which is situated in the angle formed with the rear outbuilding. A short row of pigeon holes is located on the side of the stack in the east gable end. The rear outbuilding is of slate stone rubble with a grouted scantle slate roof, partly clad in corrugated iron. An entrance is centrally placed on the east side, accompanied by a slit window to the left, and another in the north gable end.

Inside, a blocked fireplace is visible in the west end wall of the hall. The doorway to the stair turret has a wooden ovolo moulded frame with an unusual hollow stop and sunken recess. Roughly chamfered hall ceiling cross beams lack stops. A stud partition separates the hall and parlour, and the parlour contains a niche with a wooden arch head and pilasters. An early 19th-century fire grate is found in a first-floor room of the original range. The west end addition features roughly chamfered ceiling cross beams without stops and wooden newel stairs in the front corner. An old plank door, fitted with wrought iron hinges and set within a chamfered frame, is present in a first-floor room. The main range has a five-bay roof with original trusses, the straight principals having three piers of threaded purlins, with some purlins and the ridge piece missing. Mortice and tenoned apexes and cambered collars are halved and lapped to the principals. The rear outbuilding has heightened eaves and a roof of the 19th century and later. At the north end, the top of the walls are corbelled into the gable, with a rounded corner below the right-hand corner, and a corbelled niche on the opposite corner; the corbelling replicates the springing of a vault.