Great Lear Ings

Great Lear Ings is a house dating back to 1648, initialled and dated on its construction. The external walls are of hammer-dressed stone, with the south front rendered, and the roof is covered in stone slate. The original design was a three-room through-passage plan, with a two-storey gabled porch and a rear wing set at right angles to the main house.

Architecturally, the parlour features a double-chamfered mullioned window with a cavetto moulding of five lights. A single-chamfered mullioned window of the same style is located on the first floor. A two-light double-chamfered mullioned window may be part of a larger, blocked window originally comprising eight lights, with two further lights rendered before a two-light fire-window. An eight-light single-chamfered mullioned window sits above this on the first floor; all these windows are missing some mullions. The porch projects forward, featuring a scrolled plinth, a Tudor arched doorway with a cyma moulded surround (the lintel inscribed with a date set within a tressure), and an inner doorway with a chamfered surround and broach-stop. A two-light window is situated in the porch chamber. The porch has a coped gable with kneelers, and a continuous hoodmould runs around its perimeter. A decorative label stop is present to the left of the parlour window.

The service end of the house has two chamfered windows, originally of two lights each, with a former two-light and a three-light window above on the first floor. Nineteenth-century extensions of simple design are attached to each end of the original building. Gable stacks are present on the original house and one backs onto the through-passage. The rear elevation has a small chamfered light to the left of the through-passage doorway, with a Tudor arched lintel and an unusually broad stop-chamfered surround. A small two-light window is on the first floor. The rear kitchen wing projects forward, with a coped gable and stack, now topped by a ball finial, featuring carved stone to the apex displaying "G:G:160(4): [carved face]". A single-storey aisle or outshut has a three-light double-chamfered mullioned window to the left of a two-light cavetto-chamfered mullioned window.

The interior, though not fully accessible, contains finely reeded spine beams and floor joists, plank and muntin panelling, and a king-post truss in the rear wing where it joins the main range. The house is described as a fine example that has suffered from neglect.