Great Fisherton Farmhouse Including Outbuilding Adjoining To South West

Farmhouse, 16th and 17th century, with possibly earlier fabric concealed beneath. The building comprises a whitewashed rendered facade over stone rubble and some cob, with slate roofs with gable ends.

The main range is T-shaped in plan, with a 17th-century right-angled dairy projecting to the rear and an additional wing formerly part of the dwelling and cider house, now used for storage, projecting at right-angles from the lower front end of the main range. The main range was originally a 3-room through-passage plan, but the front through-passage doorway has been infilled and the entrance moved to the hall. The room to the right of the through-passage at the upper end appears to have been intended always as a parlour, with the room adjoining the hall forming the service end. The service end was extended in the 17th century by a further room providing access to the wing, which contains 2 rooms on each floor. The main range has a hall stack backing onto the former through-passage with a brick shaft. Twin diagonally set brick shafts form the stack at the right end, and a stone rubble stack at the left end with drip and tapered cap. The building is 2 storeys.

The front has a 4-window range of 19th and 20th century casements, all 2-light casements except the second from the left, which is 3-light. The ground floor has all 3-light casements except for a 2-light window inserted in the former through-passage doorway. A slate canopy covers the rear through-passage doorway. The dairy has a 3-light chamfered timber mullion window to its east side with a stone hoodmould. A 2-light timber mullion window is at the lower gable end of the main range. The wing appears to show two phases of construction with a straight joint towards the centre. The front left side has a loft door above a timber chamfered mullion window, formerly a 4-light window with mullions replaced to the right of an infilled doorway with timber lintel. The right side has pigeon holes with slate landings below eaves level flanking a small chamfered mullion window surround with stanchions and wooden shutters above a 4-light timber mullion window with chamfered surround. To the rear there is a 2-light square-headed mullion window above a small timber window of 2 pointed arched lights.

Interior: The room at the lower end has stop-chamfered beams, though its fireplace is covered in. The rear doorway at this end retains an old plank door complete with drawbar. A winder staircase formerly occupied the space to its right but has been removed; the main winder staircase survives to the rear of the hall. The hall has 4 ovolo-moulded ceiling beams. A 17th-century ovolo-moulded surround frames a doorway inserted in the through-passage. The parlour has a stone chimneypiece with chamfered and stopped surround. Part of a 17th-century plasterwork strapwork cornice is concealed by late 18th-century cupboard joinery, with likely more surviving but covered over. The chamber immediately above the parlour has a similar cornice but with blank shields in foliated surrounds to 3 sides of the room, with a pair of angel wings (one replaced) to the overmantel of the identical chimneypiece. A chamfered and scroll stopped surround frames an old door with cover strips at the head of the stairs.

The main range roof contains 6 trusses arranged 3-2-1 from the upper end with solid wall partitions between the 3 sections. The principals have short curved feet with slightly cranked collars tenoned into soffit mortices to the principals. There are 2 tiers of purlins, trenched at the lower end and threaded at the upper end, with a diagonally set ridge purlin. The dairy projection has similar roof construction but with a straight collar. The entire roof structure appears to be of one date with no evidence of smoke-blackening. The wing has a 4-centred arched doorway with chamfered surround to the left of the rear entrance. The inner end has an old timber staircase and chamfered and keel stopped beams. It contains 2 raised cruck trusses with 2 tiers of purlins and slightly cranked collars. The right side has a 17th-century door surround with jambs hollowed out to admit cider barrels to the base of a projecting rear stair turret with a winder stone stairway. Part of the roof over this section has been replaced with straight principals to the 3 trusses. Two trusses rest on short timber wall plates formerly with slightly trenched purlins. A small infilled doorway at the gable end has a ventilation slit to its right.

An adjoining outbuilding to the south-west is included in the listing.