Great House Farmhouse And Cottage

Great House Farmhouse and Cottage is a farmhouse dating from the late 17th century, with an addition, and a cottage from the 18th century. The building has been altered and is now used as public conveniences, an office, a gallery, and a cottage.

The farmhouse is constructed of squared sandstone with quoins and has a stone slate roof. It features a two-bay end-baffle-entry plan with a stair turret in the center that is flush with the stepped-out first bay. The building is two storeys high, now with an attic. The stair turret is gabled, and there is a chamfered doorway with a hoodmould at the right end of the second bay. Above this doorway, there is a single-light window, and to the left, there is one window on each floor of this bay, as well as one on each floor of the stair turret. The first bay has two windows at ground floor level. All these windows are of two lights with chamfered flush mullions and slab hoodmoulds. The left gable has three vertically aligned three-light windows and a single light to the right at first floor level. At the rear, each bay has a similar window of three lights at ground floor and two lights above, with the second bay also having fire windows of two lights at ground floor and one light above. The attic has two gabled two-light windows that appear to be later insertions. The addition at the north end features a four-light window and a door at ground floor level on the front, a two-light window at first floor, and at the rear, there are a two-light and a three-light window at ground floor and a three-light window above. The interior has been entirely altered, but the roof consists of collar trusses with raked struts that may be an early 20th-century copy of the original.

The cottage slightly overlaps the farmhouse, projecting and canted slightly forward. It is built of watershot masonry with rusticated quoins and has a roof at a slightly lower level with a chimney at the right gable. The cottage has two bays and two storeys, with two doors in the left half, both framed in plain architraves with fluted keystones. There is a window in the second bay and two windows at first floor level, all square with rusticated splayed heads that have keystones. The interior of the cottage has not been inspected. This item was likely altered by Lord Leverhulme around 1910 during the formation of Lever Park.