Grendon Farmhouse

SX 79 SW CHERITON BISHOP

9/6 Grendon Farmhouse

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Farmhouse. C16 with C17 improvements and C18 alterations. Plastered cob on rubble footings; cob, rubble and granite stacks topped with C19 brick; thatched roof. 3-room-and-through-passage plan with inner room at west end. Now 2 storeys throughout facing south. Massive granite hall fireplace backing onto passage and end stacks to service and inner rooms, the latter projecting from gable end. Roof hipped to right (service end). Irregular 5-window front of mostly C19 timber casements with glazing bars. First floor centre 2-light and centre-right 3-light casements probably C18 with leaded panes. Front door with C20 corrugated iron monopitch hood. Hall has late C16 and C17 features; oak plank-and-muntin screen with moulded head at upper end, oak, flat-arched doorframe in rear wall now to outshot but originally for stair turret to chamber over inner room, granite fireplace with heavy bead-moulded oak lintel and inserted brick side-oven, and rebated ovolo-moulded crossbeam with step stops. Service room rebuilt in C18 with rough chamfered crossbeam and end fireplace, now blocked. Roof inaccessible. Site first mentioned in C11 charter and deeds said to survive back to 1642.

Listing NGR: SX7098592770