The Grindle House

The Grindle House is a house that was formerly a farmhouse, dating from the early 17th century, with the possibility of an earlier core. It underwent alterations around 1980. The building has a three-cell plan and stands two storeys high with attics. It features a timber-framed structure with rough-cast exterior and a plaintiled roof, which includes 19th-century red brick chimneys at the rear and ends. The windows are small-pane sash windows from the 20th century, and there is a 20th-century hipped plaintiled entrance porch with boarded doors.

The house incorporates many reused timbers from a medieval structure, including smoke-blackened rafters, wall-plates, and tie-beams. The end cells have mixed chamfered and unchamfered 16th-century floor joists, although the joists on edge in the hall are not reused. There are also some complete early 17th-century ovolo-mullioned windows located on the first and attic storeys, along with a wind-braced clasped purlin roof. Inside the hall, a fragment of a 17th-century decorative scheme in blue and green was discovered around 1980. This decoration included false studwork painted on plaster, featuring a stylised fleur-de-lys at the head of each panel.