High Birks Farmhouse

High Birks Farmhouse is a farmhouse, now a house, likely built in the late 17th century and remodeled in the 18th or 19th century. The building features white-washed mixed random rubble with large quoins and through-stones at the first floor of the front and three levels of the east gable wall, topped with a stone slate roof.

The exterior is three storeys high, though the front appears to have been remodeled to show only two storeys with two windows. The ground floor has a central gabled porch with a part-glazed door, a square window to the left with altered glazing, and a square six-pane sashed window to the right. The first floor has a similar sashed window to the right, which breaks an irregular row of through-stones, and a rectangular two-light casement window to the left. The roof features a broad rectangular two-stage chimney stack to the left, at the junction with an attached former cottage, and a rectangular chimney at the right-hand gable, which has a slate band and cornice.

The rear of the farmhouse shows remains of various two-light double-chamfered mullioned windows, including one at the ground floor of the east bay that is now lacking the mullion, and another at the second-floor level above this, which is anciently blocked. There is also a small blocked stair-window in the centre, exposed ends of two beams at eaves level, and another at the first floor. An added lean-to kitchen is built into the bank at the rear of the west unit. The farmhouse forms a group with the barn and the former cottage adjoining its west end.