Grafton Manor

Grafton Manor is a country house with origins dating back to the 16th century, with significant elements from the 17th and 19th centuries. It is constructed from coursed limestone rubble and limestone ashlar, topped with a slate roof and featuring rendered brick ridge and internal stacks. The building is two stories tall and has a four-window range with a double-depth plan.

The entrance front showcases a central gabled porch that includes a studded door with an overlight and a flat-arched stone head. The ground and first floors are fitted with two-light casement windows, the ground floor windows featuring flat-arched stone heads. Gabled wings project from either end of the house, each with four-light casements on the ground floor and three-light windows on the first floor, both sets having flat-arched stone heads on the ground floor and wood lintels on the first floor. To the right, there is a two-story, two-window early 19th-century extension with a hipped roof and casement windows. The rear range is taller than the main structure.

The garden front is made of ashlar and features a central three-light ovolo-moulded stone mullion window, with an oriel window above that also has ovolo-moulded stone mullion windows with transoms. Paired three-light ovolo-moulded stone mullion windows are present on both the ground and first floors to the left and right, with the first-floor windows having transoms. There is a single-light window on the ground floor far left with a moulded stone surround, and a two-light ovolo-moulded stone mullion window on the first floor far left above it. A small central stone-coped gable sits above the oriel, featuring kneelers and ironstone and limestone quoins.

To the left, there is a two-story 19th-century brick and stone extension. Inside, the manor features an open well staircase with fat turned balusters and tall panelled newel posts with finials, along with panelled risers that are likely re-set. There are two stone fireplaces with moulded jambs and Tudor-arched heads, decorated with carving in the spandrels and friezes—strapwork and Tudor roses in the Dining Room, and scallops and Tudor roses in the Drawing Room.