The Great House

This is a substantial, two-story farmhouse dating from the mid-17th century. It is built of rubble stone, partly rendered, with a slate roof featuring brick end-stacks and a stone plinth. The front, facing south, is irregular in appearance with an off-centre entrance doorway and two tall, shallow buttresses. The first floor has three 3-light transoms and two 8+8 pane casement windows on the left side, while the ground floor features a corresponding 3-light transom, a large window to the hall, a gabled porch, and an 8+8 casement. The Tudor-arched entrance doorway has elaborate ogee and ovolo moulding. The east gable has 6+6+6 pane casement windows on both the first and ground floors. The east wall of the kitchen wing, located to the right, has 4+4+4 pane windows on both floors. A flight of stone steps leads to a cambered arched doorway with a roll-moulded surround on the north gable of the kitchen wing. On the ground floor of the left side is a large Tudor-arched doorway with a chamfered frame, a studded door with large 'trident' strap hinges. A Tudor-arched doorway with a roll-moulded frame leads to a former wash-house, featuring a plank door with applied fillets and similar trident hinges.

The building follows an L-plan layout, comprising four ground-floor rooms: a parlour at the uphill end (now a kitchen), a hall in the centre, a service room at the downhill end, and a former kitchen in the wing to the rear. The parlour retains 17th-century ceiling beams with hollow and roll moulding and run-out stops. A fine 17th-century parlour fireplace has a Tudor-arched oak lintel with panelled spandrels; above this is an ornamental frieze of carved arcaded ornament, with diamond patterned stonework to the back wall of the hearth. The hall features hollow and roll-moulded ceiling beams, and an oak fireplace lintel with a flat head, enriched with similar arcaded ornament and a moulded mantel shelf. The service room and rear kitchen both have chamfered ceiling beams with scroll stops. A Tudor-arched doorway, with a roll-moulded doorframe and a plank and batten door featuring large fleur de lys strap hinges, connects the two rooms. The kitchen has a broad fireplace opening with a chamfered Tudor-arched lintel. On the first floor, the ceiling beams share the same hollow and roll moulding. Within the bed chamber above the parlour is a tall 17th-century panelled screen with a 6-panel door. The roof interior was not accessible for inspection at the time of resurvey.