Listed Building: Grafton Manor (1190745)

Country house. C17 and C19 with C16 origins. Coursed limestone rubble and limestone ashlar, slate roof, rendered brick ridge and internal stacks. 2-storey, 4-window range. Double-depth plan. Entrance front has central gabled porch with studded door, overlight and flat-arched stone head. 2-light casement windows to ground and 1st floor, those to ground floor with flat-arched stone heads. Gabled wings project either end and have 4-light casements to ground floor, similar 3-light windows to 1st floor with flat-arched stone heads to ground floor, wood lintels to 1st floor. 2-storey, 2-window early C19 extension to right with hipped roof and casement windows. Range to rear is higher. Garden front of ashlar has central 3-light ovolo-moulded stone mullion window and oriel window above with ovolo-moulded stone mullion windows with transoms. Paired 3-light ovolo-moulded stone mullion windows to ground and 1st floor left and right, those to 1st floor with transoms. 1-light window to ground floor far left with moulded stone surround. 2-light ovolo-moulded stone mullion window to 1st floor far left above. Small central stone-coped gable above oriel with kneelers and ironstone and limestone quoins. 2-storey C19 brick and stone extension to left. Interior has open well staircase with fat turned balusters and tall panelled newel posts with finials and panelled risers; probably re-set. Two stone fireplaces with moulded jambs, Tudor-arched heads with decorative carving to spandrels and friezes - strapwork and Tudor roses to that in Dining Room, scallops and Tudor roses to that in Drawing Room.

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Feb 22 2024 12:12PM