Highgate

Highgate is a two-storey house with attics, featuring two wings connected by a short entrance range. The building is primarily constructed of brick painted black and white, with significant areas of timber framing that include a mix of square panels and close studding, much of which has been renewed. It has a slate roof with axial brick stacks on each wing, both of which have been partly renewed.

The entrance range has a single-storey lean-to added to the front, which includes a 20th-century iron-frame window in the upper storey. The west wing, located to the right, is timber framed with close studding on the lower storey and a jettied upper storey supported by moulded brackets. The ornate gable end features a jettied tie beam on decorative brackets and quatrefoils in the gable. The ground floor has a three-light window, while the upper storey has a two-light window, both with moulded wooden sills on brackets.

The east wing is primarily brick painted black and white, with some weatherboarding on the side walls, and features a timber-framed gable with small panels and painted quatrefoils. Its windows are similar to those in the west wing. The rear elevation is brick, but the gables of the outer bays are timber framed with small square panels. It has a centrally placed ledged and battened door flanked by two-light windows, along with large three-light metal-framed windows above the doorway and in the upper and lower storeys of the outer bays. The gables also have similar two-light windows.

The internal layout consists of two principal rooms in each of the outer cross wings and a subdivided entrance range, with the main staircase positioned to one side. The principal rooms feature back-to-back fireplaces in two massive axial stacks, with the fireplaces in the west wing, originally the higher status room, retaining moulded and chamfered bressummers. Throughout the house, the ceiling beams are stop-chamfered. The external wall framing of the west wing is exposed in the principal rooms on the first floor, showcasing square panelled framing with passing braces. There is also a short length of moulded and scribed post and panel partition between the two rooms. The main dog-leg staircase is fitted with thin splat balusters.