Higher Studfold Farmhouse

Higher Studfold Farmhouse is a farmhouse with origins in the 17th century, significantly altered in the 18th and 19th centuries and with 20th-century modifications. It's constructed of limewashed rubble with millstone grit dressings, and has a stone slate roof. The building has a four-cell layout and is two storeys high with four bays. The entrance, positioned slightly left of centre, has a plain surround dating to the early 1800s and a plank door sheltered by a mid-20th century gabled wooden porch. To the left of the entrance are two ground-floor, three-light, flat-faced mullioned windows, and two matching windows on the upper floor, where the mullions have been removed. The two bays to the right date back to the 17th century; the ground floor has a three-light, flat-faced mullioned window and the upper floor has a former two-light window with a missing mullion, now fitted with 20th-century casements and fixed lights. A blocked upper-floor former two-light window is visible on the far right-hand side. A central ridge stack is likely located at the original left-hand gable, with a left-hand stack situated at the penultimate left-hand gable. On the rear of the building, a late 17th-century pantry window is a two-light, double-chamfered mullioned window with a square stool and a fixed light. Inside, a central parlour fireplace from the late 18th or early 19th century features a corbelled mantel.