Gratton Corner Cottage

House. Likely dating from the late 15th to early 16th century, with further construction in the late 16th century and alterations in the 17th century and later. The structure is timber framed, with the front range's frame exposed on the ground floor and incorporating red and blue/grey brick infilling, a sandstone rubble plinth, and fishscale tile hanging on the first floor. The rear wing has a ground floor built on rubblestone with brick dressings and in brick. The roofs are covered in plain tiles. The rear wing represents the earliest part and was originally a two-bay open hall house with a solar (an upper space for private living) above the service end. To the front of this, a three-bay range was added, featuring a smoke bay on the left and an attached outshut on the right side. The house has two stories throughout.

The front elevation (the added range) includes a projecting, gabled, single-story porch with a partly glazed door connecting to a side outshut on the right. A blocked doorway is located at the left end. The first floor showcases three 20th-century casement windows, with square leading on the ground floor and diamond leading on the first floor. The roof at the right end is half-hipped with a gablet. A late 19th or early 20th-century stack is present at the right end. Another substantial, corniced stack sits at the rear of the wing.

The rear of the wing displays a long, arched brace on the right side and a small window to the right of a truncated lateral chimney built from galleted rubblestone and brick.

The interior, though not fully inspected, features a blocked wooden mullioned window on the left wall of the ground floor of the front range. There are also chamfered spine beams with lambs tongue stops and jowelled posts within the rear wing. The roofs are reported to have sooted rafters over the open hall of the rear wing and the smoke bay of the front range, along with clasped purlins. The rear wing previously had a gablet at each end of the roof and extra collars to the rafters that supported these gablets.