Higher Weare Farmhouse

Higher Weare Farmhouse is a farmhouse and adjoining barn, likely built in the 16th century, remodelled in the 17th century, and altered and extended around the late 18th or early 19th century. The rear wall is made of cob, largely rebuilt in stone rubble, and partly plastered. The roof is covered with corrugated sheet steel and features gabled and half-hipped ends. There are gable-end and axial stacks with brick shafts.

The layout consists of two rooms and a central through passage, with both rooms heated by gable end fireplaces. The left side of the passage has a plank and muntin screen, while the right room features a framed ceiling and is said to have smoke-blackened roof timbers. This suggests that the ceiling and passage were added to an open hall, and the low end of the house on the right may have been incorporated into the adjoining barn, creating an overall L-shaped plan. An outshut has been added at the rear of the house.

The exterior is two storeys high with an almost symmetrical south front. It features 19th-century three and two-light casements with glazing bars, a central doorway with a six-panel door (the top panels are glazed), and a plank door on the right. The barn projects at right angles to the farmhouse and has a half-hipped end clad in corrugated sheet steel, with opposing doorways on the front and back, and an additional doorway on the left side of the west front.

Inside, the left room has a chamfered cross-beam and a chamfered bressumer over a blocked fireplace, with a large recess to the left and a small blocked window in the gable end. The right room features a chamfered framed ceiling and a large fireplace with a timber bressumer and an oven, along with an inserted straight staircase. Early 19th-century joinery includes panelled doors and a corner cupboard. The rear blades of two side-pegged jointed cruck trusses show some smoke-blackening on the purlins and ridgepiece. The barn has staggered tenoned purlin roof trusses supported by scissor braces and contains two bays with an inserted loft.