Grandon Manor

Heritage listing

Details ST84NW SELWOOD CP FRIGGLE STREET 8/442 Grandon Manor (previously listed as Grandon Farmhouse) 11.3.68 II Country house. Dated 1679. Coursed rubble, stone dentil eaves cornice, hipped stone slate roof, 2 C20 hipped roofed dormers, 2 pairs of diagonally set ashlar stacks with moulded caps. L-plan, symmetrical frontage. Two storeys and attics, 5 bays, 2-light ogee-moulded stone-mullioned and transomed windows to centre of first floor, remainder of windows renewed in conforming style in wood; each with headed lights; weathered strings over window heads. Two-light stone-mullioned and transomed windows in 2 bays to first floor to left and right returns, leaded lights to left side, those to right side blocked with brick; strings continue on returns. Door opening in a projecting wing to rear, moulded wooden surround, studded plank door; 2-storey flat-roofed rubble porch; stone shield over door opening with raised letters:- 'GIM 1679". Five bay wing of lower height projecting at right angles to rear, 2 and 3-light stone-mullioned windows, leaded lights; believed to be house of the C15. Interior with a co-eval staircase, moulded newels with pendants and finials, turned balusters; fireplace to first floor in a 4-centred stone surround, inscribed: "16 GIM 71", moulded cornice shelf. (VAG report, unpublished SRO, August 1979). Listing NGR: ST8006446405 Legacy The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system. Legacy System number: 267389 Legacy System: LBS

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.