Higher Ingleigh

Higher Ingleigh is a house located in Broadwoodkelly, dating from the mid-17th century, with a 19th-century addition at the rear. The building features rendered cob walls and a thatched roof, which is gabled to the right and hipped to the left. It has a brick axial stack and a projecting rendered rubble stack at the gable end with a brick shaft. The layout consists of a three-room plan with a baffle entry in front of the axial stack, serving both the left-hand and central rooms. The stairs at the rear of the stack may be in their original position, and the right-hand room is heated by a gable end fireplace. A 19th-century outshot has been added along the rear wall.

The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical front featuring three windows. The windows are mostly 20th-century two-light small-paned casements, except for the two left-hand first-floor windows, which are 19th-century three-light casements with H-L hinges. To the left of the centre, in front of the stack, there is a 20th-century open-fronted gabled porch with plank doors behind it.

Inside, the hall has wany cross-beams, some of which are roughly chamfered. There is an open fireplace with a cambered wooden lintel that is chamfered with ogee stops. The roof retains two original trusses, which consist of substantial principals with slightly curved feet, collars that are lapped and pegged across their face, and purlins running along the backs of the principals. This house is an unusual example in Devon of a completely 17th-century house with a baffle entry plan.