Highams Farmhouse (EHER 4461)

Remains of 17th century house.

Original HER entry merged with NRHE data import: House is two-storied with a 17th century timber-frame. 17th century panelling in a summer-house in the garden, also a carved oak overmantel. All removed from the house. <1> Early 17th century with 19th century extension. The entrance front has a central two-storey porch of plastered brick in the Tudor style, 19th century. Panelling dates to about 1600, reported by RCHM as in a garden pavilion, installed in lower south-west room. A cast iron pump in a wooden case against the east corner. Later modifications have obliterated all external traces of the 17th century features. Grade II. <2> Roof of house rebuilt, using some smoke-blackened medieval rafters. <3> September 1971. Field visit. Highams is a 17th century building in good condition but later modifications have obliterated all external traces of 17th century features, and for this reason, the house is not out-standing. Published survey (25") revised. <4> May 1976. Field visit. No change. <5> See: <6>