Cressing Temple Farmhouse

House. Dating to the late 16th century, the building has undergone alterations in the 18th and 19th centuries. It is timber-framed, with plastered and roughcast walls and a roof covered in handmade red plain tiles. The main range faces southeast and features an axial stack near the middle and an external stack at the right end. A crosswing is located at the left end, creating a T-shaped plan with a central stack. An early 19th-century extension sits at the front angle, incorporating a lean-to roof of slate. There are two 20th-century gabled extensions to the rear, along with two catslide extensions. A 19th-century single-storey extension to the rear right forms a lean-to at the right end and is constructed of painted brick in Flemish bond, with a red clay pantile roof. The southwest elevation has a four-window range of early 20th-century sashes with four lights. The southeast elevation includes a 19th-century casement window on the first floor of the crosswing, and an early 19th-century sash window with sixteen lights on the first floor of the lean-to to its right. The main range has five early 19th-century sash windows with sixteen lights and one 20th-century reproduction on the ground floor, and four early 19th-century sashes with a four-plus-eight-light configuration using crown glass on the first floor. A 20th-century door is located within an early 19th-century Tuscan portico containing two columns, two pilasters, and a moulded entablature with a panelled soffit. A 20th-century door is present in the main range, accompanied by an early 19th-century simple architrave and canopy. The plaster is ashlared, with rusticated quoins of plaster visible on the right return only to the right of the portico. The interior is mainly plastered, with limited visibility of the original timber frame, except for some jowled posts. Axial beams are boxed in and there is oak panelling dating to approximately 1600. A clasped purlin roof remains. A bread oven is located at the northeast end. The building may represent a surviving part of a larger mansion described as 'the Greate House' in records from 1623 and 1669, although reported as a site in 1675.