Greatwood Farmhouse

Greatwood Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from around the mid to late 17th century, with 19th-century additions and alterations. It features stone rubble walls and a gable-ended slate roof, along with a rubble rear lateral stack and one at the right gable end. The layout consists of a three-room plan with a through passage; the lower room on the right has always served as a parlour, while the hall likely functioned as a kitchen with a rear lateral fireplace. The inner room was an unheated service area. The front door opens directly into a straight-run staircase, with the through passage to its left. This unusual arrangement may be original, but it is more likely a result of 19th-century modifications. At the rear, there are two 19th-century outshuts.

The exterior is two storeys high, with an asymmetrical five-window front featuring wooden mullion ovolo-moulded windows—three-light on the first floor and four-light below. These windows appear to be 17th century, although they may have been restored in the 19th century. The exception is an 18th-century three-light leaded pane casement located to the left of centre on the first floor. The first-floor windows have wooden hoodmoulds with decorative labels, while stone hoodmoulds are over the ground floor windows. The window above the porch is blocked but retains its hoodmould. The 19th-century gabled stone porch has a segmental arch, and behind it is a 19th-century plank door set in a likely 17th-century double ovolo-moulded wooden doorframe.

Inside, no early features are visible except in the right-hand ground floor room, which has a decorative plaster ceiling from the later 17th century. This ceiling features a central oval trailing vine garland, ribbed panels in the corners, and a bold cornice of acanthus leaves. There are remains of a plaster overmantle, though the central device has been removed, leaving pilasters on either side and a cornice above. Other features may have been concealed by 19th-century modernization. Overall, Greatwood Farmhouse is an interesting example of a mid to late 17th-century house that maintains a traditional appearance and has a slight variation on the conventional plan form.