Higher Farmhouse

Higher Farmhouse is a farmhouse built in the early 18th century and remodeled in 1826. It is constructed from local stone that is cut and squared, featuring Ham stone doorways and a plaque. The roof is made of Welsh slate and has coped gables with stone chimney stacks. The building has a "T" plan and is two stories high, with the west and north elevations each having three bays; the west elevation includes a left-hand gable projection.

Both facades have a central doorway. The west front features a doorway framed by ionic capped plain pilasters without a base and a flat entablature, leading to a six-fielded panel door with the top two panels glazed. The north front has a simpler doorway surround with a flat projecting stone hood supported by console brackets. The windows are sash style in plain openings, with flat voussoired arches and false keystones; the west elevation has 12-pane windows, while the north has 16-pane windows.

To the east side of the north elevation, there is a one-story lean-to, and on the south side, facing the road, there is a lower two-story section from the 18th century, built from random stone with a plain clay tile roof over two base courses of stone slates. This section has timber-framed windows, some with central iron bars, and includes an old leaded window, which is also found in the rear wall of the main house. Part of this wing is still used for cider making.

Inside the hall, there is a skull known as "Bromes Head," which was recorded by Collinson in 1791 and has resisted many attempts at burial. The farmhouse was part of the former Manor of Chilton Cantelo until 1958/59 and was presumably remodeled by John Old Goodford, who was Squire and High Sheriff of Somerset from 1816 until his death in 1835. A plaque over the west entrance displays the date 1826.