Great Oak Farmhouse

Great Oak Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the late 14th century to early 15th century, with a 16th-century addition for a parlour on the left. It features a timber frame that is partly plastered, with the front covered in whitewashed brick, and has a thatched roof. The building consists of three cells, with the earlier structure including a former open hall and an associated service end. It is 1½ storeys tall and has various casement windows. The ground floor includes three 3-light mullion and transom windows without glazing bars, set under segmental arches. There are three eyebrow dormers, one of which has an 18th-century 3-light square-leaded window. The lobby entry has a disused door with six raised fielded panels, and the stack has a rebuilt shaft. On the right gable end, there is a one-storey lean-to made of colourwashed brick.

Inside, the truss over the former open hall features the front half of a massive cambered tie beam with an intact brace, supporting an octagonal crown-post with a mutilated base and a capital that has a single roll moulding, above which is thick four-way bracing. The coupled rafters are intact but heavily sooted. The lower end wall of the hall has widely spaced studding with down braces from a central stud to the tie beam, while most of the medieval frame is concealed. The service partition has been removed, and the cross-beam that supported it is hollow-moulded. An inserted floor in the hall has an ovolo-moulded main beam, with concealed joists. A stack was inserted at the upper end of the hall, likely when the parlour cell was added. The timbers in the parlour cell are largely concealed, but there is a central cambered tie beam with missing braces, and the roof over this section has not been examined.