Grawen Farmhouse

The property is a farmhouse, likely dating to the 17th century, with later additions and alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries. The farmhouse is constructed of rubble stone with a slate roof, and features three late 19th-century yellow brick chimneys. The front elevation has three bays to the right, framed by late 19th-century yellow brick windows. To the left is a single bay with slightly larger windows, each with stone voussoirs above cambered heads. A gabled porch with painted brickwork provides shelter for the front door, which is a 20th-century replacement for a previously noted six-panel door. A blocked door is visible in the left section to the right of a window. Stone sills are present, and the original 19th-century four-pane sash windows have been replaced with 20th-century plastic windows.

Attached to the lower end of the farmhouse is an outbuilding with a slate roof. The front of the outbuilding has no windows and a door in the gable end, partly blocked with stone voussoirs. A lean-to addition extends from the rear right side. The rear of the main house features a first-floor window with stone voussoirs above cambered heads, alongside a smaller 20th-century window to the right and a longer 20th-century window to the left.

A large rear wing is attached to the rear of the three-bay front range. The one-bay link between the house and wing appears to be of 19th-century construction, suggesting that the front range is a later addition. This link features a door and window above, and a window under the eaves, the door with stone voussoirs above a straight joint to the main wing. The large stone wing has a nine-pane window on the upper floor and a large, cambered-headed three-light window with top-lights below, both featuring purple stone voussoirs and a stone sill. The gable end of the wing has a small external chimneybreast, truncated below a row of dove holes at the base of the gable, and a 19th-century yellow brick stack. There is an outshut roof to the rear left of the wing, and a gabled crosswing to the right, incorporating a window in the side wall with stone voussoirs and one to the first floor in the gable end, also with stone voussoirs. The outshut roof extends between the crosswing gable and the end gable of the front range.

The interior of the main house was partly inaccessible during the survey, but includes a modernised room in the lower south end and a 19th-century staircase in a narrow hall leading from the front door. A 1975 survey noted a gable fireplace, a wooden staircase with partly 18th-century turned balusters, leading from a passage to the rear of the south room, and two fielded panelled doors on the landing. The rear wing, dating to the 17th century, originally contained a double ceiling on the ground floor, a fireplace in the end wall with a stone staircase alongside, and a stone flagged floor. The upper room had stopped and chamfered spine beams with run-out stops. Steps led from the lower room into a wine cellar with a brick arched vault. A door in the northeast wall gave access to a further wing, partly over the cellar. A dairy with an original window opening, partly glazed and partly shuttered, was also present. Most of these original features are said to have been removed, although the cellar remains.