Grendon Farmhouse

Grendon Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 16th century, with improvements from the 17th century and alterations from the 18th century. It is constructed of plastered cob on rubble footings, with cob, rubble, and granite stacks topped with 19th-century brick, and features a thatched roof. The building has a three-room-and-through-passage plan, with the inner room located at the west end. It is now two storeys high and faces south.

The farmhouse includes a massive granite hall fireplace that backs onto the passage, with end stacks serving the service and inner rooms, the latter of which projects from the gable end. The roof is hipped to the right, at the service end. The front has an irregular arrangement of five windows, mostly 19th-century timber casements with glazing bars. The first floor features a two-light casement in the centre and a three-light casement to the centre-right, likely from the 18th century, with leaded panes. The front door is topped with a 20th-century corrugated iron monopitch hood.

Inside, the hall retains late 16th and 17th-century features, including an oak plank-and-muntin screen with a moulded head at the upper end, an oak flat-arched doorframe in the rear wall that originally led to a stair turret above the inner room, a granite fireplace with a heavy bead-moulded oak lintel and an inserted brick side-oven, and a rebated ovolo-moulded crossbeam with step stops. The service room was rebuilt in the 18th century and features a rough chamfered crossbeam and a now-blocked end fireplace. The roof is inaccessible. The site was first mentioned in an 11th-century charter, and deeds are said to survive back to 1642.