Description

SX 79 SW CHERITON BISHOP

9/6 Grendon Farmhouse

II

Farmhouse. C16 with C17 improvements and C18 alterations. Plastered cob on rubble
footings; cob, rubble and granite stacks topped with C19 brick; thatched roof.
3-room-and-through-passage plan with inner room at west end. Now 2 storeys
throughout facing south. Massive granite hall fireplace backing onto passage and
end stacks to service and inner rooms, the latter projecting from gable end. Roof
hipped to right (service end). Irregular 5-window front of mostly C19 timber
casements with glazing bars. First floor centre 2-light and centre-right 3-light
casements probably C18 with leaded panes. Front door with C20 corrugated iron
monopitch hood. Hall has late C16 and C17 features; oak plank-and-muntin screen
with moulded head at upper end, oak, flat-arched doorframe in rear wall now to
outshot but originally for stair turret to chamber over inner room, granite
fireplace with heavy bead-moulded oak lintel and inserted brick side-oven, and
rebated ovolo-moulded crossbeam with step stops. Service room rebuilt in C18 with
rough chamfered crossbeam and end fireplace, now blocked. Roof inaccessible.
Site first mentioned in C11 charter and deeds said to survive back to 1642.

Listing NGR: SX7098592770

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26611601

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Recommended Books

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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)