The Grindle House
- Date:
- 6 Aug 1999
- Location:
- The Grindle House, Grindle Lane, Bramford, Mid Suffolk, Suffolk
- Reference:
- IOE01/00215/23
- Type:
- Photograph (Digital)
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Description
This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.
BRAMFORD GRINDLE LANE TM 14 NW 7/72 The Grindle House - - II House, formerly farmhouse. Early C17 with possible earlier core; alterations of c.1980. 3-cell plan. 2 storeys and attics. Timber-framed and rough-cast.
Plaintiled roof with C19 rear and end chimneys of red brick. C20 small-pane sash windows. C20 hipped plaintiled entrance porch, with boarded doors. A building with many reused timbers from a mediaeval house, including smoke- blackened rafters, wall-plates and tie-beams. Mixed chamfered and unchamfered C16 floor joists in the end cells also reused, but not those on edge in the hall. Some complete early C17 ovolo-mullioned windows at 1st and attic storeys and wind-braced clasped purlin roof. In the hall is a fragment of a C17 decoration scheme in blue/green, which, when discovered c.1980, had false studwork painted on plaster, with a stylised fleur-de-lys at the head of each panel.
Listing NGR: TM1189345292
Content
This is part of the Series: IOE\Curtis_B.A. IOE Records for Curtis, B.A.; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England
Rights
Copyright IoE Mrs B.A. Curtis. Source Historic England Archive
This photograph was taken for the Images of England project
People & Organisations
Photographer: Curtis, B.A.
Rights Holder: Curtis, B.A.
Keywords
Brick, Roughcast, Tile, Timber, Georgian House, Victorian Monument <By Form>, Domestic, Dwelling, Farmhouse, Agricultural Dwelling, Agriculture And Subsistence, Farm Building, Agricultural Building, Timber Framed House, Timber Framed Building