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Latitude: 52.1737 / 52°10'25"N
Longitude: -0.9434 / 0°56'36"W
OS Eastings: 472354
OS Northings: 253348
OS Grid: SP723533
Mapcode National: GBR BWZ.NBH
Mapcode Global: VHDSB.LMMJ
Plus Code: 9C4X53F4+FM
Entry Name: Grafton House
Listing Date: 14 September 1992
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1372333
English Heritage Legacy ID: 361418
ID on this website: 101372333
Location: Blisworth, West Northamptonshire, NN7
County: West Northamptonshire
Civil Parish: Blisworth
Built-Up Area: Blisworth
Traditional County: Northamptonshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Northamptonshire
Church of England Parish: Blisworth St John the Baptist
Church of England Diocese: Peterborough
Tagged with: House
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
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