Higher Willsworthy Farmhouse

Higher Willsworthy Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from around the late 16th century, with additions from the 17th century. It features plastered granite rubble walls and an asbestos slate roof that is gabled at the left and rear wing, and hipped at the right end. The building has an axial rubble stack at the front range, with a rubble stack at the gable end of the wing and a rubble projecting lateral stack on the outer face.

Originally designed as a longhouse, the building has undergone complex developments over time. The original structure included a shippon on the left and a passage on the right, leading to a hall with its stack backing onto the passage and newel stairs at the rear. In the early 17th century, a two-storey hall bay was added to the front of the higher end. Significant remodelling occurred in the second half of the 17th century, which involved taking a service room from the passage and part of the shippon, and constructing a large wing at the rear of the hall. This wing included a larger hall heated by a lateral fireplace, with a parlour beyond it heated by a gable end stack. A large two-storey porch was likely added at the front of the former passage around the same time. The original hall was probably converted into a kitchen, and the old stair was adapted for use with the new wing, with a new doorway cut through. This extension is somewhat unconventional, as it would typically be expected to be built at the higher end of the hall on a level site.

The exterior of the farmhouse is two storeys high, with an asymmetrical front featuring two windows. These are 20th-century two-light casements, with windows located in the large gabled two-storey porch at the centre and the projecting hall bay at the right end. The porch has a 20th-century plank door, and there are lean-tos built onto the front of the house on either side. A long wing projects to the rear from the right-hand end.

The interior was inaccessible at the time of the survey but is believed to contain stone newel stairs and stop-chamfered cross beams.