The Great House

The Great House is a tall and simply designed house built from coursed rubble with quoins, featuring a hipped slate roof and chimneys that rise above the eaves. It has a rectangular single-depth plan, which has been modified by later additions at the rear. The north elevation is three stories high with three windows and was originally symmetrical.

Accessed by a long flight of steps through the front garden, the central doorway is sheltered by a pitched wooden canopy supported by brackets. It has a straightforward wooden doorcase and a door with semicircular-headed Gothick-style glazing that includes intersecting Y-tracery. To the left on the ground floor is a Victorian canted bay window with 4-pane sashed glazing and a hipped roof, while to the right is a large 4-pane sash window with a red brick flat-arched head. The first floor features three smaller sash windows similar to those below, with the middle window having a small relieving arch of brick above it. The top floor has three small square 1-light 4-pane casements located just beneath the eaves.

Attached to the west end wall is a 20th-century conservatory, and at the rear of the west half is a two-storey service wing that was added in the 19th century and has been enlarged twice since.

Inside, in the southwest corner of the east ground-floor room, there is a fine Georgian coved china cupboard, with the lower half featuring fielded-panel doors and the upper half having three shaped shelves and a classical architrave that includes a fluted keystone and a dentilled cornice at the ceiling level. Other rooms contain fireplaces with eared architraves. At the back of the entrance hall, there is an open-well staircase with a closed string, turned newels and balusters, and a moulded handrail that is ramped at the landing.