Higher Badworthy Including Outbuildings Adjoining North East And South West

Farmhouse with adjoining shippon and small store, located in South Brent. The building is probably of early 16th-century origin, though the lower end was rebuilt in the late 17th or early 18th century and the higher end was remodelled in the 19th century.

The exterior is constructed of granite rubble, limewashed at the front, with the rear wall partly roughcast. The roof is grouted scantle slate, relaid in Delabole slates over the house. The lower end has a half-hipped roof while the higher end is gabled. Rendered axial stacks are present. The building is a two-storey structure with a regular four-window range across the front. The outbuilding at the higher left hand end has one window, and the shippon occupies the lower right hand end. Windows are mostly 20th-century casements, many with glazing bars, though some lack them. Ground floor windows and doorways have granite lintels, while first floor windows have timber lintels. The through passage doorway is to the right, with a later doorway to the left of centre leading to a large 20th-century conservatory porch. The outbuilding at the left hand higher end has a doorway and small ground and first floor windows. The shippon at the lower right has three ground floor doors with granite lintels and a loft loading door at the centre, now partly blocked to form a window.

The rear elevation features a stair turret to the left of centre with a window opening into the passage. External stone stairs with a slated canopy lead to the loft over the shippon, which has double doors. A ventilation slit is present low down in the rear wall of the shippon, with another higher in the gable end. A doorway at higher ground level on the right hand higher end provides access to the loft over the store.

Originally, the building followed a three-room and through-passage plan, possibly with an open hall. The lower end was probably originally a shippon, rebuilt as such in the late 17th or early 18th century. A floor was inserted into the hall, possibly in the 17th century when an axial stack was built at the lower end of the hall, backing onto the passage. The inner room was probably originally unheated; a stack was later inserted at its gable end. A stair turret is positioned on the rear wall at the lower end of the hall. The outbuilding, possibly a store with a loft above, was added to the higher end. The rear doorway of the through passage has been blocked, and a second front door was inserted into the front wall of the hall. Disturbed masonry at the lower end wall of the shippon suggests heightening of the eaves. A straight joint between the house and shippon suggests the shippon was rebuilt.

Internally, the hall contains two axial half beams and one central axial beam, roughly chamfered without stops. The lower end half beam is positioned above a blocked fireplace, and the higher end half beam is unchamfered on the inner room side and was originally above a partition now removed. The former inner room has half fireplaces blocked with 20th-century grates. The passage has a beam, possibly a half beam, against the back of the stack, chamfered with hollow step stops. Solid masonry walls flank either side of the passage. Winder stairs with wooden treads are contained in the turret at the rear of the lower end of the hall. The roof over the house was replaced in the 19th century with nailed trusses. The shippon roof has five trusses halved and crossed at the apex with lapped cambered collars; three collars at the centre are heavily cambered and positioned much higher, almost at the apex, presumably to provide more headroom at the centre. All are side pegged.