Grimshall

Grimshall is a house dating from the early to mid 17th century. It is constructed of rubble stone and cob, with a rendered finish and a slate roof featuring brick stacks at the gabled ends. The building has a single depth plan comprising two rooms with a cross passage and an altered dairy at the rear.

The house is two storeys high with an asymmetrical front that has three windows. On the ground floor, there is a 2-light casement window with glazing bars to the left, set in a partly blocked larger opening that is visible from inside, and a 3-light casement window with glazing bars to the right. A partly glazed panelled door is positioned to the right of centre. On the first floor, there are three 2-light timber casement windows with glazing bars and crown glass.

Inside, the left-hand room features chamfered ceiling beams that are closely spaced, with plain stops on the south side. In the left-hand west gable end on the first floor, there is a partly blocked 3-light timber mullioned window with ovolo moulding. The interior frame is unmoulded, while the exterior shows ovolo moulding. Above the window in the first floor east room, there is a reused moulded timber beam, possibly a reduced fireplace lintel, with another part inserted above the internal door to the dairy.

The roof consists of seven bays with trenched purlins and chamfered cambered collars on eight principal rafters. The collars are halved, notched, and pegged, and carpenter's marks can be seen throughout.