Grafton House is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. House. 12 related planning applications.

Grafton House

WRENN ID
inner-baluster-ochre
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Northamptonshire
Country
England
Type
House
Source
Historic England listing

Description

House. Built around the early 19th century, with alterations in the late 19th century. Constructed of dressed limestone, with a hipped roof covered in plain tiles, the lower two courses being slate, and partly slate at the rear. Red brick axial stacks are visible. The original house has an L-shaped layout, featuring principal rooms on either side of the front entrance and a wing to the rear left. A single-storey and attic flanking wing may be an addition, while the two-storey block in the angle at the rear is a later 19th-century addition.

The northeast front is symmetrical, with three bays. The ground floor has two later 19th-century canted bays and a stone pilastered and pedimented doorway in the centre. The doorway has a fielded panel door and a rectangular overlight with margin panes. The first floor has two tripartite 4:12:4 pane sash windows and a central 4-pane sash. There are two late 19th-century gabled half-dormers with 9-pane sashes. The low flanking wings are set back slightly and feature 4-pane sashes.

The rear (southwest) side has a hipped wing on the right, with a 12-pane sash window. The main roof extends over a late 19th-century addition in the angle on the left, which has casement windows and glazed doors with overlights. A hipped dormer is on the flanking wing to the right.

The interior of the ground floor shows some Georgian doors, but primarily Victorian joinery and fireplaces.

The house is believed to have been a farmhouse on the Grafton Estate, subsequently serving as the owner's house for Blisworth Mill. John Westley is recorded as living at Grafton House in Kelly's Directory of 1898.

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