Grantland Farmhouse

Farmhouse. Dating from the early 17th century, it may incorporate an earlier core, and was renovated in 1984. The walls are plastered cob on rubble footings, with rubble stacks featuring 20th-century brick chimney shafts, and a reused 19th-century slate roof installed in 1984 (originally thatched). It's an altered 3-room-and-through-passage plan house, facing south-east, with an inner room at the north-east end. Rear lateral stacks are present to the hall and inner room, and an end stack to the service room. An 18th-century kitchen wing to the rear of the service room was rebuilt and enlarged in the 20th century, with a 20th-century extension to the service end. The front curves forward slightly. The front has an irregular 5-window arrangement of 20th-century casements, some with glazing bars, including a canted bay window at the right end. A 20th-century glazed door is located to the left of centre, leading to the passage, and another is to the right of centre, leading to the inner room. The roof is half-hipped to the right and gable-ended to the left.

The interior retains much early 17th-century work. Both the hall and inner room have floors with chamfered crossbeams, with run-out stops. The partition between the hall and inner room is an oak plank-and-muntin screen with chamfered muntins, step-stopped to accommodate a bench. A massive volcanic stone fireplace in the rear wall has a plain chamfered oak lintel and an inserted brick side oven. The screen between the hall and passage has been removed, but the surviving screen is an oak plank-and-muntin screen with chamfered and step-stopped muntins to the passage. On the lower end room side, the muntins are enriched with central full-height recessed panels and have ovolo-mouldings with step stops. The service room also has an unstopped moulded crossbeam. The rubble fireplace has a replacement timber lintel. The service room is of noticeably superior quality, and was likely used as a parlour. On the first floor, a close-studded frame is partly exposed over the lower passage screen, with another suspected over the hall-inner room screen. The roof pitch has been altered to accommodate the slate roof, but rear lower sections of original trusses remain, indicating an original A-frame distribution and form. The rear block includes one side of a massive 18th-century brick kitchen fireplace, including a large oven.