Great House Farmhouse

Great House Farmhouse is a largely 17th-century farmhouse, with later additions and alterations. It is constructed of thin coursed rough sandstone rubble, with a Welsh slate roof and tiles on the rear slopes, and Welsh slate to the wing and outshuts. The main range is rectangular, consisting of three rooms over two storeys and a garret, with a gabled porch on the front and a stair and lateral stack wing on the centre rear.

The front elevation features three ground-floor windows: two 3-light, 8+8+8 small-paned casements to the left of the gabled porch and a French casement to the right, all set in adapted 17th-century openings. Above are four windows with a 3:2:3:3-light configuration, each light containing three panes, also in 17th-century openings. All windows are late 20th-century plastic casements. The porch has a steeply pitched gable, a 4-centred head, and a plank door. Rebuilt end stacks are present. The right-hand gable end contains a fire-stair window with a 4-centred head. A 19th-century wing extends to the right with modern windows and an entrance to a cider cellar.

The rear elevation incorporates a two-storey Victorian wing to the left, characterised by red brick dressings to the windows, and a gabled attic dormer on the main roof line. A small projecting wing with a large two-flued stack is centrally positioned, the top of which has been rebuilt in Victorian red brick, likely replacing two diamond-set flues. Adjacent to this is a half-gabled staircase wing with a 3-light casement below and a blocked window above. To the right of this wing are a small window under an oak lintel and a larger casement above, along with two roof-lights; all windows are modern plastic units.

The property is fronted by a square terraced garden with stone retaining walls and an entrance staircase inset at the corner. The walls are attached to the house and a small square building, possibly a well-house, at the garden corner, which appears Victorian but has an older origin, as evidenced by its presence on the tithe map.

The entrance door opens into a cross-passage with a hall to the right, which may have been added in the 17th century. This room features a large fireplace with an oak lintel and stone jambs, containing a bread oven. Ceiling beams have roll moulds. A fire-stair has solid oak treads and a doorway with an oak surround, featuring a hollow chamfer with ogee stops and a plank door. To the left of the cross-passage are two rooms, one with a made-up fireplace, dating back to approximately 1920, featuring an oak mantel. A rear stone wheel stair rises to the attic. Further 17th-century plank doors remain, with shaped heads. The first floor shows evidence of a 'Great Room' with a now blocked fireplace on the rear wall, which has been divided by a passage running across the back. Timber-framed attic partitions are present. The principal rafter roof is of five bays, with trenched staggered purlins and a ridge piece, and original decayed floorboards. The front slope of the roof has been re-slated; reusing some secondary rafters.