Gretton House

Gretton House is a country house, now used as a residential home, dating to the mid-18th century with extensions added in the 1880s. The house is constructed of squared coursed limestone with ashlar dressings and has a stone slate roof. Originally, it likely had an L-shaped plan, but it now presents a more complex form. The main front, which runs parallel to the road, dates to the 18th century and has five windows. The central entrance has a three-panel door with a fanlight, framed by a moulded stone architrave and keyblock. The sash windows with glazing bars are similarly framed. A flat string course runs between the floors, and flat ashlar quoins are visible. A moulded wood cornice, with projections highlighting the window heads, runs along the top of the front. Three hipped roof dormers, featuring leaded casements and pulvinated friezes, are visible. The ends of the house have ashlar gable parapets and ashlar stacks with moulded cornices. An entrance front to the right of the main front dates to the 19th century and is in a 17th-century style, with one- to nine-light stone mullion windows with leaded lights and some transoms. A range to the right of the centre projects forward, featuring a central gable with a tall staircase window. A single-storey porch to the left of the centre has an arch-head opening flanked by pairs of columns, each with a frieze and entablature above. The gables and finials are decorated in a Jacobean style. A range projecting to the right of the entrance front, also from the 19th century and in a similar style, includes a lean-to half-timbered porch. The garden front, to the left of the main front, is also from the 19th century and features four irregular projecting gables, six-light stone mullion and transom windows, and a large central canted stone bay window. A late 19th-century conservatory is situated on the right. Inside, the entrance hall, located centrally within the main front of the house, contains an 18th-century staircase with two turned balusters per tread. A room to the right features fragments of 18th-century panelling, and a room directly above that has a cupboard door with openwork panelling. A later 19th-century staircase with heavy turned balusters is also present within the main entrance hall.