The Great House

Painted rubble, slate roof with tile ridge, stone stack with moulded cap. Two-and-a-half storeys plus basement. W front is symmetrical. First floor has segmental arched window openings with stone voussoirs and shallow stone sills; large C20 windows to left and right and smaller C20 window in centre. Ground floor has central entrance doorway with C20 gabled canopy, and is flanked by similar window openings on each side. Entrance door is boarded, with rectangular 3 -pane overlight. Garden front, first floor (left) has broad C17 window opening with angled dripstone (now partly blocked, with inserted 2-pane casement), and 1+1 pane casement (right). Ground floor central entrance doorway; to left is broad C20 window (left); each side of lintel are returned ends of former C17 angled dripstone; to right is 2-light transom with cambered brick window-head. S Gable, ground-floor has C19 3-pane metal casement under voussoired arch and first floor (right) similar arched window opening with C20 2-light casement.

Entry into cross passage, with hall (left) and parlour (right). Parlour and chamber above retain rare C17 plasterwork, including fragments of moulded cornice and paterae to ceilings, and fleur-de-lys decoration to walls. Hall has wide transverse ceiling beams with unusual mid-C17 hollow and ovolo mouldings and chamfered joists with scroll stops, and fine early C18 wooden bolection moulded fireplace surround with reeded shelf. Partitioned attic of four bays; roof trusses have tenoned collars and three tiers of purlins, the bottom purlins chamfered. Basement has well-preserved transverse and axial post and panel partitions; chamfered posts with scroll stops.