Gannock Farm House

Gannock Farm House is a large house with origins in the 16th century. It was remodelled in the early 18th century and extended and altered in the 19th century. The house is built of red brick with some probable timber framing, all covered in roughcast. It has a machine tiled hipped roof. Originally, the plan was L-shaped, possibly reflecting an earlier hall and cross wing, with later additions to the angle of the L forming a square block. The house has two storeys and attics. The front has three broadly spaced bays. The central entrance has a 2/3 glazed and 1/3 panelled door, recessed with an early 19th-century surround featuring pilastered jambs, dentils to a shallow pediment, all within a 20th-century gabled porch. The house has a high plinth and two plat bands. On the ground floor are two tripartite glazing bar sashes in reveals; on the first floor, a central glazing bar sash is flanked by tripartite sashes. There are boxed eaves and a central gabled dormer. A red brick stack from the 18th century is on the left gable end. The plinth and plat bands continue on the left end with two small sashes. The roof is hipped to the right return, with two broadly spaced bays. 19th-century gault brick ground floor canted bay windows have slate roofs. The first floor has flush frame tripartite sashes. A large axial stack from the 16th century stands on the ridge to the centre, with six conjoined octagonal flues. The roof is hipped to the rear, with ground floor French windows. At the rear, within the angle of the L, are 19th-century lower two-storey additions in gault brick and knapped flint, a hipped wing to the rear, and a gable end to the left with a kitchen entrance. Inside, the early 18th-century staircase has alternate fluted column and vase balusters, fluted newel posts, and a moulded handrail.