Howards And Adjoining Linhay

Howards and the adjoining linhay is a house and linhay located on High Street in High Bickington, dating from the late 18th century or early 19th century, with remodeling that occurred in the early 20th century. The building is rendered, likely over cob or stone rubble, with an addition of uncoursed stone rubble. It features a Welsh-slate roof that has a gabled end on the right and a hipped end on the left, which was formerly thatched. At the rear, there is a lean-to roof that is hipped at the right-hand corner. The right end has a rendered stack with an early 20th-century red brick top section, while the left end has an early 19th-century brick stack. The linhay, located at the rear, is made of rendered cob and has a gable-ended roof covered with clay tiles from the 20th century.

The building has a two-room central-entrance plan, with an external end stack to the right and an integral end stack to the left, along with a central staircase. There is likely a two-storey lean-to outshut at the rear, which was probably added in the 19th century. The linhay at the rear is parallel to the house and is connected by a short section of wall at the right-hand end. This linhay was rendered and reroofed in the early 20th century.

The exterior features a symmetrical three-bay front with early 20th-century glazing bar sashes: 16-pane windows on the first floor (each leaf consisting of four 2-pane sections) and a tripartite arrangement on the ground floor, which includes a central 16-pane sash with sidelights. The first-floor windows are fitted with louvred shutters. The central door has four lower panels and three glazed upper panels, set in a pegged chamfered wooden frame, and is topped by a gabled lattice wooden porch with shaped barge boards. The right side of the rear outshut features late 20th-century two-light wooden casements on both the first and ground floors, with the ground floor window having a wooden lintel. The linhay at the rear has an open front with three bays supported by square piers, and the short section of the linhay wall includes a boarded door with a chamfered wooden frame. The interior has not been inspected.