The Great House is a Grade II listed building in the Malvern Hills local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1959. House.

The Great House

WRENN ID
dusk-joist-grain
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Malvern Hills
Country
England
Date first listed
29 July 1959
Type
House
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Great House is an early 18th-century brick house built in Flemish bond with limestone dressings and a hipped tile roof. It features a symmetrical design with two storeys, an attic, and five bays. The outer quoins and quoin strips framing the central bay have broken dentilled cornices. The windows are boxed sashes with glazing bars, stone sills, and segmental brick heads that include carved keystones. Notably, the central window on the first floor has a round head with Gothick glazing, an architrave with moulded imposts, and a carved apron, with the keystone depicting a wheatsheaf. At the attic level, the parapet has blind recesses with segmental heads, keystones, and stone sills that align with the broken cornice. The central bay features an oculus, and the parapet coping is curved to resemble an open segmental pediment. The early 19th-century doorway has a round head with a Gothick fanlight, a timber doorcase, and an open pediment supported by console brackets. There are chimneys located to the left and right towards the rear of the house.

Inside, there is an early 19th-century staircase that rises on three sides of an open well, featuring stick balusters and turned newels. A blocked inglenook is present in the right-hand rear room, and the rear hall includes a doorway set within a blocked round arch with a mask keystone.

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