Griff Lodge Farmhouse

Griff Lodge Farmhouse is a farmhouse that underwent remodelling in the early 18th century, originally built as an earlier house. It features Flemish bond red brick with a platband and has machine tile roofs with both gabled and hipped ends, along with brick axial and lateral stacks. The layout appears to be a result of the early 18th-century remodelling, with a parlour located in the crosswing on the left (south) side, which has a cellar below. The hall, which includes a rear lateral stack, is on the right and has a small service room adjacent to it. Between the hall and parlour, there is a through-passage leading to the right and a dog-leg staircase at the rear on the left, with a small room in front. A service wing with a one-room plan from the 18th century is set back on the left (north) end, while a wing behind the hall is reported to have been destroyed by a bomb during the Second World War.

The exterior of the farmhouse is two storeys with attics and features an asymmetrical east front with four windows on the left and one window on the right. The platband extends across the entire front and around the wing. The 19th-century windows are three-light mullion-transom windows set within 18th-century cambered arch openings, with later brick cills. The central entrance door of the main range is glazed and panelled, topped with a late 19th-century gabled canopy that has wavy bargeboards. The rear (west) side has a slightly projecting gable on the right, which has been partly rebuilt, and a tall stair window to the right of centre, along with a rebuilt truncated gable on the left. On the extreme left (north) is the projecting service wing, which features a platband and a blocked window above a three-light casement.

Inside, the farmhouse retains 18th and 19th-century joinery. The hall has a chamfered cross-beam without stops and a large fireplace with an unchamfered timber lintel. The parlour boasts a moulded plaster ceiling cornice and a 20th-century chimneypiece. A notable feature is the early 18th-century dog-leg staircase that leads up to the attics, complete with a moulded string, turned balusters, square newels with ball-finials, and a moulded handrail. The wing at the north end contains a re-used unchamfered axial beam, and chamfered beams can be found in the chambers. The crosswing roof has large purlins exposed in the attic chamber, while the roof over the hall has been rebuilt. The cellar beneath the south crosswing has dressed sandstone walls and features chamfered stone mullion windows at the back.