Great Howton Farmhouse Including Outbuilding Adjoining

Great Howton Farmhouse, which includes an adjoining outbuilding, is a farmhouse that dates from the 17th century or earlier, with significant alterations made in the 19th century. It features granite rubble walls that are rendered at the front and most of the wing, and it has a slate roof with gable ends. The attached barn has a corrugated iron roof. The axial stack is rendered, likely made of stone, while there are granite block gable end stacks on both the main range and the wing, topped with granite capping. There is also an oven projection beside the wing stack.

The farmhouse has a 3-room-and-through-passage plan, with the lower end to the left, which has been rebuilt as a barn below the passage. The axial hall stack backs onto the passage and heats the inner room, which has a gable end stack. In the late 17th century, a kitchen wing was added at the rear of the higher end, featuring a gable end stack and an adjoining oven. A two-storey porch was constructed at the front of the passage during this time. It is possible that the lower end was replaced by the barn around this period, although some earlier fabric may remain, possibly from a shippon.

In the mid to late 19th century, the house underwent modernization, which included heightening and refenestration. The farmhouse is two storeys tall and has an asymmetrical three-window front with a storeyed porch to the left. The windows are two-light casements from the late 19th century, featuring glazing bars. The porch has a shallow 4-centred granite arched doorway from the late 17th century, complete with a hoodmould and chamfered edges on both the inside and outside. Above the porch window is a mock 19th-century hoodmould in plaster. To the left of the doorway, there is a stone mounting block. Inside the porch, there is an early 20th-century plank and glazed door leading to the passage.

The barn has a much lower roofline, with doors on the right and left sides and a first-floor loading door on the right. The interior was inaccessible during the survey, but the passage features a dressed granite fireplace back with a chamfered plinth and cornice. It is also known that there is a 17th-century date carved in plaster in a first-floor room.