Great House Farmhouse and attached Barn

Thick stone walls, externally with whitewashed rendering. Gable roof with Welsh slate cladding and wavy ridge; formerly thatched. The barn is also whitewashed rubblestone with a Welsh slate roof. From west (right) to east, north-east elevation has features of an C18 to C19 type on the first floor and late C20 factory joinery on the ground floor. Firstly, a sash window with 8 over 8 panes on first floor, secondly a sash window with 6 over 6 panes on first floor, thirdly a sash window with 6 over 6 panes above a low 6-panelled door with top two panels glazed, fourthly, a 2-light casement with small panes on ground floor, fifthly a sash window with 6 over 6 panes on first floor, sixthly a 2-light casement with small panes on ground floor and, seventhly a blank space of walling as far as the eastern angle, this being the added kitchen. Beyond this comes the rectangular barn with a lower roofline. This has a small cart entry near the house and a vertical slit vent at the far end; blind gable wall. Fairly low pitch roof to both house and barn. The house ridge carries two stacks, a plain central one with two flues for the hall and upper room and a kitchen stack on the left gable with two diamond set shafts; the stack for the outer room no longer breaches the roofline. The garden before this elevation is enclosed by a stone rubble wall and interrupted by a gateway with C19 piers with capping. South-west elevation has a two-storey wing built against it with an outshut built in turn against its north-west wall; formerly a first floor doorway in north-west wall; present entrance in south-east side. This elevation was not seen at resurvey. Additional two-storey unit at each end.

Interior not available at resurvey, but the existing list description agrees with RCAHMW. Their plan shows a 2-room house with a cross passage behind the hall hearth and an outer room divided from the cross passage by a timber screen. The Hall has two chamfered cross beams with broach stops and on first floor above the outer room there is a corbelled fireplace with broach stops to the stone jambs. The stone dog-leg stair is entered through the south wall of the Hall. Additional two-storey unit at east end with fireplace and oven; first floor room retains chamfered beams with lambs tongue stops, all this suggests 1625-60. Roof trusses are principal rafter with mortice-and-tenon jointed collar. The interior of the barn was not seen but its profile suggests that it too is C17, and the low roof pitch suggests a queen strut roof, which would be expected in a barn of this class.