Lower Grinsty Farmhouse
LOWER GRINSTY FARMHOUSE, LOWER GRINSTY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1348638
- Date first listed:
- 10-Apr-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Grinsty Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER GRINSTY FARMHOUSE, LOWER GRINSTY LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1348638
- Date first listed:
- 10-Apr-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Grinsty Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWER GRINSTY FARMHOUSE, LOWER GRINSTY LANE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER GRINSTY FARMHOUSE, LOWER GRINSTY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Redditch (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 02316 65604
Details
REDDITCH B LOWER GRINSTY LANE (south side) SP 06 NW
1/128 Lower Grinsty Farmhouse 10.4.54
GV II
Farmhouse, now house. c1600; restored late C20. Timber-framed with painted brick infill on brick base; plain tiled roofs. Hall and cross-wing plan; hall of single framed bay aligned east/west; large external chimney with tiled off- sets on south side; cross-wing of two framed bays at west gable end. Two storeys and attic. Framing: mainly four panels from sill to wall-plate with short straight braces in upper corners; collar and tie-beam trusses with four struts beneath collar; hall truss has V-strut above collar and north cross- wing truss has a single central strut in the apex. The framing of the north gable end is heavier than elsewhere as it would originally have been the dis- play front. Windows are C20 casements with leaded lights. North elevation: hall has a ground floor 3-light window and a first floor 2-light window; lean- to porch on timber post adjacent to cross-wing in original cross-passage postion but present doorway in adjoining cross-wing wall; cross-wing gable end has blocked original openings and a single-light ground floor window; 2-light ground and first floor window in east side elevation with C20 door in angle with hall (see above). Interior not inspected. An inventory of 1617 suggests that the farmhouse became a "forechamber" or extension to The Hall House (qv) nearby; the latter, an earlier single-bay dwelling, was altered to form the dining hall and parlour to the farmhouse, whilst the farmhouse consisted of buttery and four separate chambers. Alternatively the inventory may refer to the farmhouse alone and the "hall house" mentioned refers, as is usually assumed, to the hall inside the main building and The Hall House may have become an outbuilding. The farmhouse and The Hall House form an unusual and remarkably well-preserved domestic group of considerable historic interest. (BoE, p 152; Richard Harris, Survey for Avoncroft Museum of Buildings, Janaury 1984).
Listing NGR: SP0231665604
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 156604
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Harris, R, Survey for Avoncroft Museum of Buildings, (1984)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, (1968), 152
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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