Higher Chillaton House

Higher Chillaton House is a farmhouse dating from the 1860s. It is constructed of stone rubble with gabled and hipped roofs covered with crested ridge tiles, featuring stone dressings. The house has two projecting stone stacks with coped granite set-offs and moulded granite caps. It is a High Victorian building, characterized by an irregular plan.

The east-facing garden elevation is divided into a three-window south block and a projecting wing. The south block is gabled at the left end, with the roof gabled frontwards over the right-hand window, and features a chamfered granite string at first floor level. A front projecting wing is gabled to face forward, containing a stone porch in the angle between the south block and the wing. Deep eaves are supported by moulded stone brackets to the front gables. A ground floor window on the left has been converted into a French window and incorporates a 20th-century conservatory to its left. The porch has a chamfered doorway with a pointed arch and polychromatic banding around the head, and a slit window above. A 3-light, 16th-century style granite mullioned window, with replaced mullions and carved label stops, is incorporated into the left return of the porch. The first floor window to the left is a paired sash with a chamfered granite lintel, sill, and central jamb. The roof is gabled over the right-hand window of the south block, which has a pointed arched sash with Gothic glazing bars in the head, below voussoirs and a keystone. The ground floor window in the wing is a 3-light canted bay with 4-pane sashes and a stone architrave. Above the bay window, a pair of pointed arched sashes with Gothic glazing bars and polychromatic banding around the heads of the arches, a chamfered granite sill, and a stopped chamfered common jamb is visible. A trefoil ventilator is set in the gable. The south elevation of the house presents a more regular arrangement of three bays with 12-pane sashes and granite sills.

Inside, contemporary features survive, including two chamfered arched stone doorways, a 3-light stone mullioned internal stair window with a square head and cusped lights, and a stair with chamfered stick balusters. One ground floor room retains exposed joists and a cross beam, while the principal bedroom has a ceiling divided into panels by trefoil pierced ribs. Several contemporary fireplaces are also intact. Higher Chillaton House represents an unusually ambitious and large farmhouse for the region, dating to the 1860s.