Bronhaul

SJ 5223-5323 17/39

GRINSHILL C.P. HIGH STREET (North side)

Bronhaul

GV II

Incorrectly shown on OS map as Bronaul. House. Dated 1771, incorporating probably C15 core. Red brick on dressed yellow/grey Grinshill sandstone plinth and incorporating timber framed core of cruck construction; plain tile roof. One storey and gable-lit attic and 2 storeys and gable-lit attic. Chamfered plinth and dentil brick eaves cornice; integral brick end stack to right and internal brick end stack to left. 3 bays; segmental-headed wooden cross windows; central first-floor Venetian-type window with Gothick tracery and painted chamfered datestone above inscribed: D 2 stone steps up to central C20 half-glazed door with W : E 3-part rectangular overlight and moulded architrave. 1771 Lower kitchen wing to right with segmental-headed 2-Light wooden casement to front. Very tall stone plinth at rear. Interior: large probably C15 former hall full cruck truss with arch-braced collar, continuous chamfer, central quasi boss and yoke; probably mid-C16 chamfered cross- beamed ceiling frame in kitchen block and late C16 inserted stack with large open fireplace. Right-hand ground-floor room with mid-C17 chamfered spine beam and joists, and open fireplace with ogee-stopped wooden lintel. Left-hand ground-floor room with pair of C18 plastered beams, moulded cornice, and C18 wall cupboard adjacent to fireplace with raised and fielded panel, H-hinges, and shaped shelves. C18 dog-leg staircase rising to attic with closed string, turned balusters, turned newel post, moulded handrail and simple Chinese Chippendale balustrade to attic flight. C18 four-panelled and boarded doors throughout. The cruck truss appears to be a former central open truss of an open hall and now separates the lower kitchen block from the main part of the house. The kitchen ceiling frame and the right-hand stack were probably inserted in the hall in the late C16, the ceiling in the right-hand room of the main part of the house is possibly an insertion of the late C17 or the remains of a later partial rebuilding of the C15 house. The house was almost totally rebuilt and extended to the left in the C18. This is a good and largely unaltered example of a late C18 house and is especially notable for its earlier core. Alcock, p. 143.

Listing NGR: SJ5219423436