The Great House

The Great House is a Grade II* listed building constructed from painted rubble, featuring a slate roof with a tile ridge and a stone stack with a moulded cap. It stands two-and-a-half storeys tall, plus a basement, with a symmetrical front elevation. The first floor showcases segmental arched window openings with stone voussoirs and shallow stone sills, flanked by large 20th-century windows on either side and a smaller 20th-century window in the center. The ground floor has a central entrance doorway beneath a 20th-century gabled canopy, with similar window openings on each side. The entrance door is boarded and includes a rectangular three-pane overlight.

On the garden front, the first floor to the left features a broad 17th-century window opening with an angled dripstone, which is now partly blocked and has a 2-pane casement inserted. To the right, there is a 1+1 pane casement. The ground floor has a central entrance doorway; to the left is a broad 20th-century window, with the returned ends of the former 17th-century angled dripstone on either side of the lintel, and to the right is a 2-light transom with a cambered brick window-head. The south gable has a ground-floor 19th-century three-pane metal casement under a voussoired arch, and the first floor (right) features a similar arched window opening with a 20th-century 2-light casement.

Inside, there is an entry into a cross passage leading to a hall on the left and a parlour on the right. Both the parlour and the chamber above retain rare 17th-century plasterwork, including fragments of moulded cornice and paterae on the ceilings, as well as fleur-de-lys decoration on the walls. The hall is characterized by wide transverse ceiling beams with unusual mid-17th-century hollow and ovolo mouldings, along with chamfered joists featuring scroll stops. It also contains a fine early 18th-century wooden bolection moulded fireplace surround with a reeded shelf. The attic is partitioned into four bays, with roof trusses that have tenoned collars and three tiers of purlins, the bottom purlins being chamfered. The basement is notable for its well-preserved transverse and axial post and panel partitions, with chamfered posts that also have scroll stops.