Bleak House

Bleak House is an early 19th-century tall house built of rubble stone with brick dressings, located on the south side of Church Street in Great Faringdon. The building has a basement and three storeys, topped with a stone tiled eaves roof featuring fretted eaves boards and barge-boards. The end wall stacks are made of corniced ashlar, and there are brick angles and window surrounds. The house has a three-window range, with arched heads on the first and second floor windows, as well as the centre ground floor window on the north front. The ground and first floor windows feature stone keys, and the windows are glazing bar sash types. The centre ground and first floor windows on the north front are blank. The south front has a central flat-headed door with a margin-light fanlight and a tent canopy that extends across the centre and east side, supported by three iron columns with a fretted pelmet. Small hoods over the first floor windows have been removed. There is a later rear extension on the west side.