Building record 0406501000 - GRENVILLE MANOR, 3 ASTON ROAD

2 storeyed building, probably C16 with modern kitchen & staircase wing at back. Present building may be only a fragment of original house said to have been built 1569 (B1).
Grade II+. House. C16, reputedly built in 1569. Timber framed with front and right hand gable elevation clad in C18 coursed rubblestone with brick dressings. Old tile roof. 2 wide bays, 2 storeys with attic and of central lobby entry type. Central doorway in porch composed of reused earlier timbers and carved woodwork. Flanked by single light windows with C15 tracery, probably from the rood screen of the parish church. 4-light left hand casement, 3-light to right. Upper floor with 3-light oriel to left, C19 or early C20, 2-light centre window with modern datestone over in gable, 3-light right casement, these two C18 with original leading. Right hand gable with Y-tracery window. Centre stack of old thin bricks with oversailing courses. Timber framing exposed to left flank and rear elevations. 2-storey rear range in stone, brick dressed, old tile roof. Interior. Chamfered and stopped spine beams, cambered and chamfered ground floor fireplace beams. 1st floor left hand room has fireplace with moulded 4-centred arch and jambs. Straight purlin braces. Much reused older material inside, including on staircase. The former house of Walter Rose, author of the 'The Village Carpenter'. RCHM I 180. MON.4 (B4).