Barleycorn Cottage And Attached Farmbuildings

Barleycorn Cottage and the attached farm buildings are located on High Street in Grinshill. The main house dates from the early to mid-17th century, with an addition around 1700 and some alterations made in the late 20th century. It is constructed with a timber frame and painted brick nogging on a 20th-century brick plinth, topped with plain tile roofs. The framing features square panels with long straight tension braces. The building has a T-plan layout, consisting of a 17th-century L-plan range of three framed bays, along with a 1700 bay to the east. It is one storey high with an attic.

The north front displays a pair of 17th-century timber-framed eaves dormers, which have 20th-century three-light casements. The jettied gables are adorned with carved bressumers and small brackets; the right gable features a square panel with a quatrefoil, while the left has panelled diagonal struts. There is also a small gabled eaves dormer to the left with a 20th-century casement. Off-centre to the right, there are brick ridge stacks. The front has three windows, all fitted with 20th-century three-light wooden casements, and there are 20th-century doors to the right and between the first and second windows from the left. The right gable end is jettied and has a quarter-round moulded bressumer along with a truss featuring double collars and queen struts.

At the rear, there is a 17th-century timber-framed wing to the right with a gabled eaves dormer, and a 19th-century lean-to addition in the angle to the left. The adjoining farm buildings to the south date from the 17th century and have 18th and 19th-century alterations. They are also timber framed with red brick nogging, partly rebuilt in red brick, and have a plain tile roof. The farm buildings are one storey high with a loft, featuring a gabled loft dormer to the west, various inserted 20th-century windows, segmental-headed doorways (some of which are blocked), and large 20th-century openings to the left and right.