Grapes Farmhouse

Grapes Farmhouse is a farmhouse that was once The Grapes Public House. It dates from the early to mid-16th century and underwent major alterations around 1600. The building has a three-cell plan with a cross-wing on the right and features lobby and cross-passage entrances. It is one storey high with attics and is timber-framed; originally plastered, it has been weatherboarded since the early 19th century. The roofs are plain tiled, with a 17th-century gabled dormer that has a mid-19th-century casement window. There is a 17th-century axial chimney made of red brick and an external 18th-century chimney on the right, which is rendered in the 20th century. Most of the windows are mid-19th-century casements, with a small-pane sash window in the parlour on the right and several 18th-century windows with wrought iron casements at the rear.

At the lobby entrance, there is a 19th-century boarded door and a rare single-storey entrance porch from around 1600, which is timber-framed and has 19th-century weatherboarding. The porch features a moulded wallplate with a row of five turned baluster shafts on either side, and there is evidence of a former arched doorhead at the outer doorway. To the left of the entrance is an early or mid-16th-century block that has good close studding, blocked diamond mullioned windows, unchamfered heavy floor joists, and a queen post roof. The lower rear wing has similar features and appears to be original. The rest of the building was remodeled or rebuilt around 1600. Inside the hall, there are chamfered ceiling joists laid flat, good studding of smaller scantling, and a side purlin roof with large principal rafters. Little of the cross-wing framing was visible at the time of the survey, but there may be a possible 16th-century core.