Grundle House

Grundle House is a late 15th-century house located in Stanton. It is a half-H shaped building with four bays, featuring a central open hall and two cross-wings. The house is timber-framed and rendered, with plain-tiled roofs. Both cross-wings have a first-floor overhang on the front, supported by brackets at eaves level. The south wing also has a rear overhang. A large external red brick chimney-stack, with a rebuilt top, is at the back of the hall range. An 18th-century extension, built of rendered brick and incorporating an internal chimney-stack, is situated behind the north wing. Various 19th-century lean-to extensions have been added. Windows are mostly old casements with a single bar to each light, with a reinstated four-light mullioned window on the ground storey of the north wing. Both doorways of the cross-entry at the lower end of the hall remain in use.

The interior is fine, with much original timbering. A service wing on the south side was formerly divided into two rooms; remnants of doorways with arched spandrels and blocked original windows remain, alongside the base of an oriel on the upper storey. The former open hall has two long bays, and retains a main post of the open truss, featuring remains of a shaft and carved capital and base, a cambered tie-beam, and a crown-post roof. The crown-post, now in the roof space, is of cross-quadrate form, braced in four ways at the head. The roof timbers are heavily smoke-blackened. A dais beam with embattled ornament is visible in the partition wall at the north end of the hall. An inserted chimney-stack obscures one of the original long windows, and only the main beam of the inserted ceiling is exposed. In the north wing (originally a parlour), the ground floor room has ogee-moulded ceiling-joists and a blocked doorway in the partition wall leading to the hall. This section of the house, originally roofed in line with the hall, was later extended and reroofed at right angles, as evidenced by the wall-plates. The upper room has a cambered tie-beam, and the two original lengths of wall-plate feature remains of painted cresting decoration. The roof has side-purlins.