Great Goytre Farmhouse

Large early C18 farmhouse. Rubble stone. C20 slate roof, end-stacks are C20 on broad stone bases. Symmetrical, two-and-a-half storey front. Attic has three gabled dormers that spring at eaves level, C18 3-light 3+3+3 pane casement windows, the middle window has 3 fixed lights with overlapping panes. First floor has three C20 3-light transom windows. Window-heads are segmentally arched with stone voussoirs; thin stone sills. Ground-floor has central entrance doorway with rectangular 5-pane overlight and gabled canopy; late C17 6-panel door, top two panels fielded, bottom four flush. On either side are similar C20 3-light transoms. C17 wing (to rear) is two storey with end-stack. NE elevation, first floor has two C20 windows in older openings with timber lintels; ground floor (left) has similar window and (to right) C17 4-light sunk chamfer mullion window, left two lights retain wooden stanchions. Gable of C17 wing has blocked window openings either side of a centre stack on first floor and another blocked opening on ground floor (left).

C18 house has two unit plan with centre staircase. Ground floor has 6-panel doors, first floor 2-panel doors and attic boarded doors. Quarter turn stair with winders has square newels with chamfered cap and rectangular section balusters. Ovolo moulded ceiling beam on first floor landing. 5-bay attic ceiled at collar. Centre trusses do not have tie beams. Instead the feet of the principal rafters are carried on short spurs which are connected to chamfered wall posts which run down the inner wall and are morticed into the floor beams below. C17 wing has stone flagged floors, dairy with stone shelves, plaster ceiling with moulded cornice on first floor and evidence of a former fireplace stair at the gable.