Great Wilmores Farmhouse

A house dating from the 16th century, altered in the 19th century and extended in the 20th century. It is timber framed and largely clad with yellow stock bricks in a stretcher bond pattern, with some roughcast rendering. The roof is tiled with red clay tiles from the 19th century. The original hall block comprises three bays aligned approximately east to west, with a southern aspect, and is a single storey with attics. It features a chimney stack in the eastern part of the western bay, slightly north of the central axis, and an axial chimney stack at the eastern end. A two-storey crosswing is positioned at the western end, with a hipped roof to the north, and a chimney stack near the middle of the west side. A two-storey porch, dating from the 19th century, joins the hall block and crosswing. 20th-century conservatories are attached to both the west and east sides, along with a small lean-to extension to the east, also from the 20th century. A red brick lean-to extension is located to the north, dating from the 19th century. The ground floor features a glazed door under a bracketed hood from the 20th century, two bays with paired double-hung sash windows of four lights (19th/20th century), and one similar window. The first floor has three 19th/20th-century casement windows, and one more within a gabled dormer. Inside the crosswing are jowled posts, plain chamfered axial beams with concave and bar stops, arched braces to the central tiebeam, and a queen strut roof. The studded north end of the crosswing is visible in an outhouse to the rear. No timber framing is exposed in the hall block. This unusual house retains the form and structure of a typical 16th-century farmhouse, with the cross-entry intact, a chimney stack slightly off the line to heat the original hall, a dormer window to light the upper floor, and a two-storey crosswing with a lower storey of more than usual height. It has a 19th-century appearance due to the overall brick and roughcast rendering, and the plastered interior finish. The only wholly 19th-century feature is the two-storey porch, which may have replaced a similar timber structure.