Grip Farmhouse

TL 5446 LINTON THE GRIP (East Side)

15/105 Nos. 15 & 17 (Grip Farmhouse) 22.11.67

GV II

House, formerly a farmhouse enlarged in C17 and later partly demolished; converted as two dwellings in the C19. C16 and C17 with C19 and C20 alterations. Timber-framed and plastered with some late C18 pargetted panels and roundel with indistinct inscription to rear elevation, stucco to street elevation with imitation masonry lines. C20 interlocking tiles. Tall red brick ridge stack with grouped shafts; gable end stack to right hand. Two storeys and attics; cross wing to north late C16 with early C17 hall and late C17 gable extension to south. Main entrance (now sealed internally) to right of centre with six-flush-panelled door, wooden doorcase and shallow hood. Three ground floor C20 three-light mullioned and transomed casement windows with drip moulds, and three similar first floor windows. Two C20 gabled dormer windows. Interior: exposed timber-frame and floor-frame shows clearly the three building periods; original winding oak staircase in an internal turret rising to attic floors; sealed ovolo moulded mullioned windows; some bolection moulded two-panelled late C17 doors; the hall, and chamber above both have timbers with traces of vermillion paint, part of the original decorative scheme; side purlin roofs windbraced. The farmhouse was enlarged in the late C17 to the east, only part of the garden walls to the north remain. Robert Flack (b.1627), steward of Linton Manor in late C17 is said to have rebuilt the farmhouse (Palmer). In 1783/4, as part of the Linton estate it was sold to Benjamin Keene who demolished the east-west range.

Maling, A. Survey for Barrington Flack. 1732 U.L. Millicent and Paris Maps 1600. Pembroke College Stevens, R.L. 'The Grip Farm and C17 Flacks' 1983 (unpublished) C.C. Palmer, W.M. The Antiquities of Linton, 1913, p7 R.C.H.M. Report 1951

Listing NGR: TL5595246413