British Listed Buildings

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Listing Text

The following buildings shall be added to the list;

SP 7254 BLISWORTH GAYTON ROAD

10/10000 Grafton House

GV II


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 panel 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.


Listing NGR: SP7235453348

Source: English Heritage

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