Greys East the Greys

This is a house and office, now a house and cottage, built in 1858. It is constructed of painted brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with a slate roof. The building has a double pile plan, meaning it’s two rooms deep, facing southeast. There are two internal stacks of gault brick, arranged asymmetrically. At the rear right is a large service wing, and a smaller, lower wing – originally the accounts office of Greys Mill – known as Greys East, set in the angle in front of the service wing, featuring a stack at the junction. A small, single-storey extension with a hipped roof adjoins the rear of the service wing.

The main house has two storeys and a three-window front with sash windows having marginal lights and shallow segmental arches. The central entrance has a six-panel door, with the lower part flush, set within a doorcase featuring reeded detail, panelled jambs and soffit, and a moulded flat canopy. An overlight features geometrical cast iron tracery. Inside Greys East, there is a 20th-century metal casement window on the ground floor, and an original sash window on the first floor, along with a plain door. The roofs are hipped with a shallow pitch and long overhangs. The left return features one 12-light sash and one French window with marginal lights, both original, on the ground floor. The right return of Greys East has one original 12-light sash window with an original external shutter on the ground floor, and a round window on the first floor. Original sashes, again with 12 lights, are found in the right return of the service wing and rear elevation of the main house. Much of the glass is original crown glass. Inside, the original staircase retains a wreathed handrail, stick balusters, and moulded treads, and the interior doors are four-panelled.

The building was formerly the house and office of Grey’s Mill, also known as Docwra’s, and was rebuilt for George Docwra following a fire in 1858.