Higher Farm Including Cider Cellar To The South And Walls To The North And West

Higher Farm comprises a farmhouse, a cider cellar, and associated walls. The farmhouse was likely built in the mid-19th century, possibly as an extension and remodelling of an earlier house, while the cider cellar probably dates to the mid-19th century as well. The building is constructed of colourwashed rendered cob and stone rubble with a slate roof of two different heights, hipped at the right end of the north block.

The layout is an overall 'L' shape. The two main rooms face north, with a service wing, parallel to the road and at a right angle to the north-facing block, containing the kitchen, service rooms, and the cider cellar. The kitchen and service rooms likely represent a 17th or earlier single-depth house, possibly truncated and reduced to a service wing in the mid-19th century when the new principal rooms were added. Two entrances are on the west side; one leads to a passage between the service wing and the main rooms, and the other connects the cider cellar to the kitchen.

The west elevation has a deep eaves and an asymmetrical 5:2 window arrangement, with the two windows belonging to the cider cellar which has a lower roofline. A recessed panelled door is located to the extreme right of the service wing. Scattered timber casement windows with small panes are found throughout, with a blind recess on the first floor to the left. The cider cellar is notable with two first-floor casements, a recessed door beneath a timber lintel to the left, and two unglazed ground floor windows. The north elevation, facing the garden, has a regular pattern of two first-floor and two ground-floor 3-light timber casements with glazing bars.

The building is situated slightly back from the road behind rendered and stone rubble walls. Tall tiled-capped walls enclose the garden to the north and west. A lower stone rubble wall west of the west elevation has irregular stone capping in front of the cider cellar.

Inside, features include a well-preserved open kitchen fireplace with a brick lintel, and 19th-century joinery and a chimney-piece in the principal rooms. The cider cellar, still in use, has a pitched stone floor. It is an attractive range, with group value alongside the cottages opposite and a nearby farm building, contributing significantly to the village streetscape – it is the last working farm in the village.