Great Hormead Dane

Great Hormead Dane is a house dating from the late 16th century, with a rear wing added in the late 17th century. The attics were made in the early 19th century, and the rear wing was altered to serve as a kitchen, with additional chimneys added. The building features a timber frame with exposed close-studding, while the lower part of the rear wing is made of plastered brick. It has a half-hipped steep thatched roof.

The house is two stories high, with a large cellar and attics, and it faces south. The rear wing is located at the northwest. The main range has a three-cell, cross-passage plan, which originally included a divided service bay on the west side. A large 17th-century chimney was inserted, backing onto the passage, with a stair originally located on its north side. There was also a formerly unheated parlour on the east side with a stair in the northeast corner. A late 17th-century chimney was built at the junction with the rear wing, which was formed out of service rooms, along with a new stair in the wing.

The jettied south front features three three-light flush casement windows on the upper floor, along with a small two-light window above the entrance door, which is located to the left of the chimney. The ground floor has three similar windows. The entrance door is battened and set in a frame with moulded jambs and a recessed head. Inside, the west room has mortices for twin four-centred doorways and an axial partition. A beam embedded in the north side of the hall chimney suggests the presence of an earlier timber-framed chimney.

On the first floor, at the stairhead, there is a four-centred doorway with sunk spandrels. The hall and chamber feature bar stopped chamfers on the joists and beams, as well as on the lintel of the hall fireplace. There is an ovolo-moulded window on the north side of the hall, and head mortices for a diamond mullioned window with a shutter groove in the west wall on the first floor. An unusual structural feature includes thickened principal posts in the jettied south wall, which support the beams and plate of the lower wall.