Grafton House

Grafton House is a farmhouse, now a house, dating from the early to mid-17th century, with significant alterations in the early 18th century and a 19th-century addition to the rear, along with a 20th-century extension. The house is timber framed with red brick nogging, and further extended using red brick. The roofs are covered in 20th-century asbestos slate.

The original timber framing features small square panels, from the sole plate to the wall plate, with long straight tension braces. It consists of two framed bays with an L-shaped 18th-century addition to the south. The house is two storeys high, with a gable-lit attic. The south block, dating to the 18th century, has a distinctive toothed brick eaves cornice and external brick end stacks with toothed-brick caps. It has two bays with segmental-headed glazing bar sashes, with stone cills, having replaced earlier four-bay windows. A 20th-century lean-to conservatory and a single-storey brick block are located to the left of the south block.

The right-hand gable end has a ground-floor segmental-headed boxed glazing bar sash window, an early 19th-century wooden cross window to the first floor with a segmental relieving arch, and a 2-light leaded wooden attic casement. The left-hand gable end incorporates a 20th-century imitation glazing bar sash window and a 2-light attic casement. A two-storey wing is situated at the rear. The east front features a first-floor leaded wooden cross window with a segmental relieving arch and an 18th-century door with six raised and fielded panels (the top two glazed), with a two-part leaded rectangular overlight, pegged oak frame with double-quirked beaded corners, and a flat hood on shaped brackets. A boarded door is located to the west.

The 17th-century north block has jettied gables with ovolo-moulded and stopped tie-beams, carved scrolled end brackets, trusses with two collars and queen struts, and a large central brick ridge stack consisting of four square shafts. The gable ends have 20th-century two-light wooden attic casements and 3-light wooden casements to the ground and first floors, with 20th-century French casements to the west. A 19th-century two-storey brick wing sits to the rear, featuring an external brick end stack.

Inside the 17th-century wing, there are pairs of chamfered ceiling beams with ogee stops. An open fireplace in the right-hand ground-floor room has a chamfered wooden lintel with ogee stops. A staircase, built around 1700, is located in the central link block, rising to the attic. It has a closed string, turned balusters, a moulded handrail, square newel posts with moulded caps, and a turned baluster-shaped foot newel. A circa 1700 two-panelled ground-floor door with L-hinges is also present. The 19th-century rear wing incorporates reused 17th-century panelling, featuring carving and fluting, inscribed "TE. DOMINE.SPERAVI./TA VA", which may have been removed from elsewhere in the house or brought in, possibly from a church.