Great Pitley Farmhouse

Great Pitley Farmhouse is a house dating from the 16th century, with extensions made in the 19th century. It features a timber frame and plastered exterior, with sections made of gault brick and flint, and is topped with handmade red clay tiles. The main part of the house has four bays facing southeast, with a brick stack in the left bay and a four-bay crosswing to the left that extends to the rear. There is a 19th-century internal stack near the right end and an external stack on the left return wall. A parallel range was added in the early 19th century in the northern angle, which includes an axial stack, creating a rectangular layout. The house has two storeys, with three 20th-century casement windows on the ground floor and one more on the first floor, along with four early 19th-century sash windows with 12 lights.

The entrance features a door with six fielded panels set within an early 19th-century Gothick porch made of gault brick and knapped flint. This porch has a two-centred outer arch, a stepped gable with pinnacles, and windows on each side with two-centred arches and intersecting tracery. Inside, there are signs of a continuous jetty facing southeast, which has been underbuilt. The interior also includes chamfered transverse and axial beams (some boxed in) and jowled posts. While most of the frame is plastered, the lower rear room of the crosswing has exposed studding with curved bracing that is trenched to the inside, some original wattle and daub infill, and moulded transverse and axial beams, along with moulded joists of horizontal section that are characteristic of the mid-16th century. The main stack has been modified to create an arch over a ground floor doorway. The roof of the main range features clasped purlin construction with arched wind-bracing. The early 19th-century range includes a large bread oven with a wrought iron door and a separate flue, as well as an associated wash boiler or brewing vat.