Great House

Great House is a 17th-century farmhouse constructed from whitewashed rubble stone and topped with a slate roof. It features a large external stone stack on the west end, which is offset to the right and has a brick top, along with a stone and rendered ridge stack and a small east end stack. The building is two storeys with an attic, and the long south front has pairs of casement windows, one on each floor to the left, followed by a 20th-century door that is part of an early 17th-century addition to the left of the ridge stack. To the right of the stack, there is a similar window on each floor, and an upper end door is located in an added glazed porch with a casement pair above, set higher than those on the main part. The east end has a modern long attic window that replaces a loft door, while the west end features a bread oven to the left of the stack and some corbelling above. The rear includes a gabled stair tower with a lean-to to the left. The windows are reserved chamfered with renewed oak frames and original stone hoodmoulds. There is a three-light first-floor window with an original iron casement to the main range, located to the right of the stair tower, above a former door. The stair tower has a similar two-light window on the east side at both the first floor and attic levels, with the attic window shown as blocked in a photograph by Fox and Raglan. Similar two-light windows are present on the north and east sides of the tower.

The house has a three-room plan, with the entrance leading into the original upper end, now used as a kitchen. The hall below features three heavy chamfered beams with stepped hollow stops and diagonal stops to the joists. The west end fireplace has a massive stone lintel and chamfered jambs, with the lintel possibly added during renovations. There are two doorcases leading to the stair and lower end, each with shaped doorheads. Originally, there was a post and panel screen below that divided the passage from the parlour. The lower room contains four large beams and a modern fireplace at the west end chimney. The rear stair tower has a Tudor-arched door leading into the cellar, with jambs widened for barrels. The stair features a square centre core made of stone and solid oak treads. On the first floor, there is a fireplace with a massive lintel and chamfered jambs made of grey stone. The structure has heavy beams and large principal rafters in the lean-to, with a two-bay roof over the stair. The west end roof has two chamfered collar trusses with massive triple purlins and a large ridge beam, while a lighter truss is present over the east end.