Graft House Wall And Store

A house with a boundary wall and former detached kitchen, now a store, dating from 1733, with alterations made in the mid-18th century. The building is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond, with a slate roof, brick coped tumbled gables, and two brick gable stacks. It has a T-shaped plan, two storeys plus attics, and a five-bay front with a wooden dentillated eaves course. The central entrance features double doors with eight panels, topped by a decorative shell hood supported on scrolled brackets, with leaded glazing. Flanking the entrance are single, canted 19th-century sash windows with plain pilasters and hipped lead roofs. The first floor has five glazing bar sashes arranged in a 2:1:2 pattern, set within brick segmental heads. Three 19th-century two-light gabled dormers with boarded gables and glazed cheeks are set into the attic. To the right is a pent-roofed bay with a tumbled gable and a glazing bar sash window, connected to a brick garden wall and a planked gateway, which leads to the store. The store has brick coped tumbled gables, a slate roof, a single reduced gable stack, brick dentillated eaves, a planked door, and a single glazing bar pivot window with segmental heads. An ashlar datestone in a blocked opening on the rear wing reads "CBJ 1733,” possibly indicating Charles Jennison. The interior includes a dogleg staircase with two turned variform balusters per tread, a carved scrolled open string, a tall circular newel, and a moulded handrail. There’s an early 18th-century bolection moulded fireplace surround with a mantelshelf, and three-panel doors throughout. The store features a broad brick fireplace with a reused chamfered and stepped bressumer and is likely a former detached kitchen.