Listed Building: Grafton House (1372333)

House. Circa early C19, altered in late C19. Dressed limestone. Hipped plain tile roof, the lower 2 courses slate, and partly slate at rear. Red brick axial stacks. PLAN: the original house is L-shaped on plan with principal room on either side of front entrance and wing to rear left; the single storey and attic flanking wing may be additions but the 2-storey block in the angle at the back is a later C19 addition. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic. Symmetrical 1:3:1 bay north east front. Ground floor 2 later C19 canted bays and stone pilastered and pedimented doorway at centre with fielded panelled door and rectangular overlight with margin panes. First floor 2 tripartite 4:12:4 pane C19 sashes and central 4 pane sash, 2 late C19 gabled half dormers with 9 pane sashes. Low flanking wings, set back slightly, with 4 pane sashes. Rear (SW): hipped wing on right with 12-pane sash; main roof carried down over late C19 addition in angle on left, with casement windows, and glazed doors with overlights. Flanking wing on right with hipped dormer. INTERIOR: Only ground floor seen, some Georgian doors, but mostly Victorian joinery and chimneypieces. NOTE: Said to have been a farmhouse on the Grafton Estate. It then became Blisworth Mill (qv) owner's house and John Westley is listed in Kelly's Directory 1898, as living at Grafton House. SOURCE: Kelly's Directory 1898.

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