Great House

The Great House is a large house dating to 1624. It is constructed of ashlar stone with a stone slate roof to the main two-storey range, and hammer-dressed stone with a modern tile roof to a lower range. The main range features three gables with parallel ridges to the west of a through-passage. The lower range has a gabled porch attached, featuring a Tudor arched lintel inscribed with the date, a moulded surround with carved spandrels, and coping forming a triangular pediment. The lower building also has a three-light chamfered mullioned window to both floors. The main range has three coped gables with parapets and lantern finials, rainwater chutes to the valleys, and a continuous plinth that runs around the structure. Most windows are double-chamfered mullioned and transomed, lacking some mullions, with a continuous string course that steps over the ground floor windows and hoodmoulds with decorated label stops of differing designs to the first floor. The first cell has a four-light window with an inserted 20th-century doorway and a six-light window above to the first floor. The second cell has a ten-light window with an eight-light window above to the first floor. The third cell, under a wider gable, has a ten-light window and a cross fire-window with an eight-light window above to the first floor. Each gable has a columbarium. The rear elevation incorporates double-chamfered mullioned windows without transoms of two, three and four lights, with two gables set further forward than the outer gable. There are four stacks present. The through-passage doorway has a simple chamfered surround.

Inside, the housebody retains its original bressumer, carried on a heck-post, and a plank-and-muntin fire-screen. The parlour retains its original fireplace with a Tudor arched lintel, shields set in sunken spandrels, and moulded jambs with elaborate stops. The stone overmantel is carved with blank arcading and roundels, similar to the fireplace in the parlour of Swift Place, Rochdale Road. The parlour in the west wing has a fireplace with a chamfered surround.