High Trees

High Trees is a large late Georgian gentleman's residence. The walls are rendered, and it features a hipped slate roof behind a coped parapet, with a deep moulded eaves cornice and long narrow rendered stacks. The building has two storeys. The entrance front has a projecting three-window range, with the central bay slightly breaking forward. It contains 12-pane sashes with narrow glazing bars set in reveals with architraves. The central doorway is topped with an open bracketed pediment featuring a diamond frieze and a reeded architrave leading to a round-arched doorway with a fanlight that has radial glazing. There is a flight of seven nosed stone steps leading up to the entrance. A moulded string course runs at first floor level.

To the left and set back is the return bay of the garden elevation, which has a first-floor sash and no ground floor windows. This elevation features a two-storey splayed bay with similar sashes, a single window range to the left where the cornice is curtailed, and a two-window range to the right. There is also a two-window range on the uphill side.

Inside, the hall leads to a staircase that rises parallel to the entrance front. The staircase has splat pierced balusters and a polygonal newel. The hall and the downstairs areas, which were formerly reception rooms and are now offices and a Council chamber, retain decorative plasterwork, particularly in the cornices and friezes, along with panelled reveals, six-panelled doors, and decorative fireplaces.