Iscoyd Park was purchased in 1843 by Philip Lake Godsal, a Cheltenham coach builder, and comprised an estate of 202 acres (82 hectares) including mansion house with park, and cottages and smallholdings. Over subsequent decades farms were acquired from neighbouring landowners, mainly during the ownership of Philip William Godsal, who inherited in 1858 and died in 1896. In 1895 it was reported to the Royal Commission on Land in Wales and Monmouthshire that the Iscoyd Park estate, now expanded to 887 acres (359 hectares), had 9 farms, including Higher Lanes. Of these 'six new farmhouses, bricked and slated, and homesteads to them, have been built new entirely' and 'sixteen cottages and buildings for pigs and cows have been erected'.

Two ranges placed end-to-end, built of brick with tile roofs. The higher lofted section on the left side has a full-height joint to the centre, indicating a later extension or rebuilding of the left side. There are two pairs of doors right and left of this joint, the right-hand below a loading door, with segmental-headed split boarded door further right and boarded opening to the left. The lower shippon is wider and projects beyond the line of the higher section in both elevations. Facing the yard it has 2 split boarded doors flanking a central window in a former doorway.

The rear elevation of the shippon has a central door flanked by windows, and the higher section retains a segmental-headed split boarded door to the left, and corrugated-iron lean-to to its right.
(Source; Cadw listing database) S Fielding RCAHMW 19/06/2006