| Of many early houses even the site is lost, notably Greetville -
though there may have been a name-change as at Fulford, and in fact
the site continued in use. We cannot in most cases claim that buildings
which survived into recent times were earlier than Tudor, but the
dwelling sites were much earlier. Swanshurst was a C 15th hall, so
was Fulford, and probably Ashleigh Grange, Bulley and Sarehole Halls.
Swanshurst was added to in the C 16th and 18th, Fulford (Grove) in
1651.
Ashleigh was timbered in pad-and-panel style like Swanshurst :
no pictures of the others have been found. Little Sarehole, which
stood beside the Four Arches Bridge, was a high-gabled house in
checkerboard timbering, dating from Tudor times. Millmead, the house
which stands above Sarehole millpool, is not ancient, being in fact
a careful copy of a Tudor timber-and-brick mansion. The oldest buildings
in the area are Georgian.
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