Great Gornhay Farm

Great Gornhay Farm is a house that dates from the early to mid-18th century, featuring an extension and remodelling of an earlier structure, with further alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building is constructed of rendered stone, partly stone rubble, and cob, and has bitumen-coated slate roofs that are both hipped and gable-ended. There are brick stacks positioned along the axial and gable ends.

The layout includes an earlier range that forms the rear northeast wing, which was extended by a two-storey, two-room plan cross-wing that has a symmetrical five-bay front facing southwest. Although the original range was largely rebuilt in the 19th century, remnants of the earlier structure can still be seen at the northeast end, which was extensively rebuilt in the 18th century.

The exterior features two storeys and was originally symmetrical with a five-bay southwest front, complete with a hipped roof and a platband at the first-floor level. There are large niches at the centre of both the ground and first floors, sash windows with glazing bars, tall eight-pane sashes on the first floor (with the right-hand one blocked), and twelve-pane sashes on the ground floor. A glazed garden door is located on the left, alongside a 20th-century glazed door on the right. The rear northeast wing has a southeast front, with a painted brick rebuilt range on the left that includes 19th-century casements on the first floor and a tripartite sash with a porch at the angle on the ground floor. The range on the right has lower eaves and cob walls that have been largely rebuilt in stone rubble, featuring two-light ground floor casements and circa 18th-century three-light first floor casements with leaded panes, along with outshuts at the rear northwest.

The interior of the southwest cross-wing was inspected, revealing that the ground floor room on the left (northwest) is entirely lined with 18th-century fielded panelling, complete with a moulded dado rail and cornice. It also features a round-headed niche with shaped shelves set in a moulded architrave and a fielded six-panel door. The first floor contains fielded two-and six-panel doors and a tie-beam roof structure.

Great Gornhay is a notable example of early Georgian remodelling of an earlier farmhouse.