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The former Post Office in Higham is a grade II-listed timber-framed and rendered structure that was built as a single domestic house of modest scale and status in the middle decades of the 17th century.

A rectory is signified N of the church on Bowen's 1755 map; on Hodskinson's 1783 map (S1) a `great house' symbol is shown on the site of the `Old Rectory'.

Evaluation identified two undated features , a shallow ditch and a small post hole.

15th century timber-framed building

Monitoring of footing trenches revealed two post-medieval features.

Monitoring of the footing trenches revealed a large disturbance of probable 19th century date and an undated ditch, thought to be of some antiquity.

Flake.

Hundreds of gunflints and 'strike-a-lights' dug up in garden.

Orginally a 16th century timber-framed farmhouse it was remodelled into a rectory c.1840

A Grade II timber-framed listed building with 19th century masonry and brick additions.