Great Priory Farmhouse

Great Priory Farmhouse is a house that dates back to the 16th century and earlier, with alterations made in the 17th and 18th centuries. It is timber framed and plastered, with a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The house features a 2-bay medieval hall facing northwest, which includes an early 16th-century axial stack in the left bay. To the right, there is a 3-bay extension with a central stack from the mid-16th century, and to the left, a 2-bay service extension with a rear wing from the 17th century, forming an L-plan layout.

The central and right sections of the house are two storeys high, while the service range and rear extension are one storey with attics. The northwest elevation has a three-window range of late 18th-century sashes with 16 lights, featuring crown glass. There is a six-panel door with the lower panels boarded, set in an eared doorcase with a dentilled pediment. The service range includes one 20th-century casement, one horizontally sliding sash with 18 lights, and one 19th-century casement in a gabled dormer, along with a plain boarded door.

On the rear (northeast) elevation, the upper storey has one 18th-century 3-light window with a wrought iron casement, and one 4-light window with a 17th-century wrought iron casement, along with a complete set of sprockets below the eaves. There is also one 18th-century window of 3 fixed lights in the left return wall. The original hall has an inserted floor with a chamfered axial beam featuring step stops from the early 16th century, supported by pegged clamps. The roof was rebuilt in a gambrel form in the 16th or 17th century, but this is concealed from the outside by walls raised in the 18th century.

The main structure is fully plastered and undatable. The right extension has chamfered axial and transverse beams, original rebated floorboards, jowled posts, cambered tiebeams with one arched brace, and a crownpost roof with axial bracing, which has been altered to clasped purlin construction while leaving the earlier structure intact. The service range features jowled posts, primary straight bracing, and a butt-purlin roof with straight wind-bracing. Internal features in this range include a suspended cheese rack and an early 19th-century cast iron coal range with adjustable cheeks, along with a 18th-century wrought iron 3-movement crane that has been reused with it.