Higher Northcott Including Barn Adjoining To South

This is a farmhouse with an adjoining barn, dating from around the early 17th century, possibly with earlier medieval origins. Later alterations and additions were made in the late 17th or early 18th century, as well as in the 19th and 20th centuries. The structure is primarily built of plastered cob walls, with a gable ended thatched roof. It features a brick lateral stack at the front of the left-hand end, and a rendered rubble axial stack with a brick shaft built in front.

The original plan was of a three-room-and-through-passage design, with the lower end of the house to the left. The hall is heated by an axial stack, with a window bay to the front. A lower room is heated by a corner stack, which is likely a later 18th-century insertion. An unheated inner room is beyond this, and an L-shaped outbuilding addition is located at the right-hand end, likely dating to the late 17th or early 18th century. Minor 19th and 20th-century extensions exist at the rear. A staircase was added into the passage in the 20th century.

The front elevation, which is asymmetrical with four windows on the first floor, features late 19th-century six-pane sash windows. The ground floor has late 20th-century single-light casements without glazing bars. A hall window projection with an extending thatch roof is located to the right of centre. A 20th-century lean-to porch in the angle with the hall bay provides access to the passage. A rectangular oven projection is attached to the hall stack. A gabled outbuilding wing projects from the right-hand end, with a later, lower extension in front of it. A 19th-century outbuilding connects the house to a late 18th or early 19th-century barn that extends to the front.

Inside, the hall has two roll-moulded axial beams. The fireplace is topped with a chamfered wooden lintel. The lower room has a narrow-chamfered axial beam with run-out stops. The roof trusses consist of mostly 19th-century timber principals and lapped collars.