Higher Huntham Farmhouse

Higher Huntham Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 16th century, with alterations made in the early 18th century. It was likely converted temporarily into two dwellings in the late 19th century and underwent partial refenestration in the mid-20th century. The building features a rubble and possibly cob façade on the north front, with brick and blue lias random rubble, and roughcast south wings flanking a squared and coursed blue lias centre. The south front has Ham stone dressings and a thatched roof with coped verges on the wings, while there are brick stacks at the gable ends. An addition on the east front is made of random rubble with a green concrete tiled lean-to, continuing with a steeply pitched wing roofed with pantiles and featuring a tall brick stack in the gable end.

The farmhouse is arranged in a U-plan with three cells and a cross passage, altered internally with a corridor addition and a resited entrance. The symmetrical wings on the south front are two storeys high, with a layout of 1:4:1 bays. The south front includes two-light hollow chamfer stone mullioned windows on the left gable end and centre, both under hoodmoulds, while the right gable end has a hoodmould only. The ground floor left gable end is unlit but has a similar window in the re-entrant angle. All openings on the ground floor are under brick lintels, with 20th-century windows. Entrances are located in the second bay on the left and in the re-entrant angle of the right-hand wing, which is unlit on the gable end.

Inside, there is a large chamfered bressumer at the east gable end, possibly indicating a smoke bay, with an inserted dogleg stair in the northeast corner. The interior also features an exposed chamfered curved truss, corbelled out to support a chamfered beam, and steeply chamfered beams with scroll stops at the west end. A significant amount of 18th-century joinery remains. The upper storey has not been seen.