Higher Quarry

The property is a farmhouse, now a house, dating to the early 17th century. It was likely re-oriented in the mid to late 17th century and extended with a two-story porch and outshuts to the left and right, with 20th-century alterations made subsequently. The construction is granite rubble, rendered except for the porch, with granite dressings and a tiled roof featuring weathered gable end stacks.

Originally a two-room plan with a through passage and a stair tower to the original rear (now front right), the house was re-oriented in the later 17th century, effectively turning it around. This resulted in a two-story porch being added to the front of the passage, a kitchen outshut to the front right, and a two-story dairy outshut to the front left, these original additions being unheated. The dairy has a small projecting porch to its left end.

The front of the house has a roof extended over the left and right additions. The central two-story porch has a hipped roof and a four-centred arched, chamfered, run-out stopped granite doorway with a 20th-century door. There’s a 20th-century two-light casement window under the eaves. To the right is a three-light chamfered granite casement, and to the left, a similar two-light and single-light casement, all with 20th-century glazing. The dairy porch has a 20th-century glazed door and a small, single, hollow-chamfered granite light with an iron stanchion to the side. The left gable end has a dairy with a pitched roof and two-light chamfered granite casement windows at ground and first floor, projecting beyond the gable end of the main range, with a similar single granite light to the rear.

The main range has an external stack, and a two-light chamfered granite casement at first floor to the left. A continuous slate string extends around the dairy. The right gable end has a 20th-century single-storey porch to the left, with a door, a similar two-light granite casement at first floor above the kitchen outshut, featuring a 19th-century flue. A gable end external stack is present on the main range, along with a two-light granite casement at first floor right, where a mullion has been cut away, and a slate string below window level. The rear of the house displays three windows: 12-pane sashes in exposed boxes at first floor, and replacement 16-pane sashes to the left and right of the rear passage door, which itself features a four-centred arch, chamfered, with a 20th-century door.

The interior has been significantly altered. The stair tower contains a granite newel stair around a wooden post. There is a hall/kitchen to the right, separated from the passage by a solid wall, and a partition wall to the lower end room to the left.