The Grindle House

TM 14 NW 7/72

BRAMFORD GRINDLE LANE The Grindle House

II House, formerly farmhouse. Early C17 with possible earlier core; alterations of c.1980. 3-cell plan. 2 storeys and attics. Timber-framed and rough-cast. Plaintiled roof with C19 rear and end chimneys of red brick. C20 small-pane sash windows. C20 hipped plaintiled entrance porch, with boarded doors. A building with many reused timbers from a medieval house, including smoke-blackened rafters, wall-plates and tie-beams. Mixed chamfered and unchamfered C16 floor joists in the end cells also reused, but not those on edge in the hall. Some complete early C17 ovolo-mullioned windows at 1st and attic storeys and wind-braced clasped purlin roof. In the hall is a fragment of a C17 decoration scheme in blue/green, which, when discovered c.1980, had false studwork painted on plaster, with a stylised fleur-de-lys at the head of each panel.

Listing NGR: TM1189345292