Grange Farmhouse And Gin Gang

NZ 05 SW MUGGLESWICK MUGGLESWICK 4/103 Grange Farmhouse and gin gang (Formerly 17/10/80 listed as Grange Farmhouse and adjoining Farm buildings) GV II Farmhouse. Mid C18 and C19, incorporating earlier work. Thinly-rendered sandstone rubble with quoins and ashlar dressings; roofs concrete tiles and Welsh slate, with stone gable copings and brick chimneys. Main house 2 builds: 2 storeys, 1 and 3 bays; farm building attached at right 2 lower storeys, 9 bays; 13 bays in all. Main house: first build of 3 bays has central double partly- glazed doors in architrave; plain stone surrounds to late C19 sashes, paired in ground floor; similar sashes in build at left; roof has moulded kneelers and 3 corniced ridge chimneys on stone plinths. Gabled rear right wing. Farm building at right has boarded door under chamfered lintel, dated 1624, keyed into house and on long-and-short stone left jambs and alternate-block right jamb; 2 boarded Dutch doors; fixed lights with vertical lights and opening transoms; side stone steps in 8th bay to first-floor boarded Dutch door; similar windows above at right; boarded pitching openings in first and third bays; central first-floor pigeon holes and shelves. Circular low gingang wall behind right end bay continuous with retaining wall to lower ground level. Interior of house has some dado rails, and panelled keyed round-headed cupboards, with shaped shelves. Cross passage from early door between house and farm building.

Listing NGR: NZ0459050072