Highfield Hall

Inside the front door is an entrance lobby with tiled floor, plaster cornice with egg & dart moulding and ornate ceiling rose. Inner doorway as main entrance with half-glazed panelled door, fanlight and side lights. Inside the door is a long stair-hall with similar ceiling cornice. Segmental panelled archway to reception area with open-well wooden staircase to L. It has turned balusters, large square newels with carved foliage decoration and large finials, and a moulded handrail. Panelled doors with ribbing, in moulded doorcases with panelled reveals. To the L of the stair-hall are 2 rooms for dining. That to the front has a ceiling cornice with egg & dart and scrolled decoration, and a marble fireplace. The room behind, containing the canted bay, has moulded coving, 2 ornate ceiling roses, and a small wooden fireplace with relief decoration. To the R of the stair-hall is the cocktail bar, with classical-style fireplace flanked by recessed arches. To R of reception area is a doorway to later rear wing with bar and former ballroom which has a ceiling light with stained glass, 2 pairs of glazed doors to conservatory to L, and an archway to R to sitting area.

Large symmetrical 2-storey, 3-window house with square plan. Stuccoed under a hipped slate roof with wide boarded eaves. Rendered stacks; ridge stack R of centre to front, stacks with multiple shafts set back behind to L & R, and 2 stacks to rear. First-floor sill band; recessed hornless sash windows with fine glazing bars and flat heads. The entrance front has a stone tetrastyle Doric porch to centre with plain mutules to cornice. Panelled entrance door in a moulded frame with flower motifs to upper angles, with narrow side-lights and a 3-centred arched fanlight with radial glazing bars. The porch is flanked by full-height 6-over-9-pane sashes. Three-over-6-pane sashes to upper storey.

The garden front has a central canted bay containing double glazed doors with large panes. The parapets support scrolled iron railings which form a 1st floor balcony, reached by French doors with side lights. The flanking windows to each floor are as entrance front. Adjoining the NW angle of the house is a glazed conservatory on a high plinth with hipped lead-covered roof. External doors to N and S, the glazing with small panes. To the rear (N) is an added single-storey bay to centre with hipped roof. It has a canted bay to the N end with French doors. Conservatory to R and flat-roofed extension to L. Sash windows to upper storey, partly visible, and skylights to roof pitch. The E side of the house has a fire-escape door to the centre of the upper storey reached by a metal staircase. This is flanked by a 3-over-6-pane sash to the L and a tripartite sash to the R. To the ground floor is a small brick lean-to to the L and a large multi-pane hornless sash to the R.

Adjoining the NE angle of the house is a long L-shaped service range of 2 storeys, constructed of brick with hipped slate roofs with wide boarded eaves and brick stacks. The S end of the long N-S range has a shallow lean-to porch to L with planked door and 2-light multi-pane casement. To the R of the porch is a 2-light casement, above which is a 3-over-6-pane sash, all with segmental brick heads. To the L at 1st floor level is a 6-over-6-pane sash in an earlier 2-storey projection. This long range was formerly a coach house and stables, now converted to accommodation. The E side is 6-window to the upper storey, with shallow segmental brick heads, stone sills and plain glazing, except L window which is blind. Two small-pane sashes to L of lower storey, beyond which the openings are much altered including infill of a central carriage doorway with brickwork and a window. The block at right angles to the N is said to be the earlier house at Highfield and is rectangular in plan. The S side, in the angle of the 2 ranges, has a carriage doorway with segmental head and planked doors, and 3-light C20 windows with horizontal glazing bars to the R and aligned to the upper storey. The E front has a tall panelled door with overlight flanked by small-pane horned sashes, with similar windows above. The N side is 6-window with a central gabled porch with half-glazed door to E side, and small-pane horned sash windows of different widths. To the W is a C20 door L of centre and 2 small-pane sashes to each storey. Late C20 casements to R.