Grip Farmhouse

Grip Farmhouse is a house that was originally a farmhouse, enlarged in the 17th century and later partly demolished. It was converted into two dwellings in the 19th century. The building dates from the 16th and 17th centuries, with alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. It features a timber-framed structure that is plastered, with some late 18th-century pargetted panels and a roundel with an indistinct inscription on the rear elevation. The street-facing side is finished in stucco with imitation masonry lines, and the roof is covered with 20th-century interlocking tiles.

The farmhouse has a tall red brick ridge stack with grouped shafts and a gable end stack on the right side. It is two storeys high with attics and includes a cross wing to the north from the late 16th century, an early 17th-century hall, and a late 17th-century gable extension to the south. The main entrance, which is now sealed internally, is located to the right of the centre and features a six-flush-panelled door with a wooden doorcase and a shallow hood. There are three ground floor 20th-century three-light mullioned and transomed casement windows with drip moulds, as well as three similar windows on the first floor and two 20th-century gabled dormer windows.

Inside, the exposed timber frame and floor frame clearly show the three building periods. There is an original winding oak staircase in an internal turret that rises to the attic floors. The interior also includes sealed ovolo moulded mullioned windows, some bolection moulded two-panelled late 17th-century doors, and the hall and chamber above both have timbers with traces of vermillion paint, which is part of the original decorative scheme. The side purlin roofs are windbraced. The farmhouse was enlarged to the east in the late 17th century, although only part of the garden walls to the north remain. Robert Flack, born in 1627 and steward of Linton Manor in the late 17th century, is said to have rebuilt the farmhouse. In 1783/4, as part of the Linton estate, it was sold to Benjamin Keene, who demolished the east-west range.