Wilton Grange

Wilton Grange is a large house constructed between 1902 and 1903 by Henry Barnes. It is built of brick with stone dressings to the ground floor, featuring a half-timbered first floor, a plain clay tile roof, and five brick stacks. The design incorporates vernacular, Queen Anne, and Jacobean architectural details, forming an "L" shaped plan. The windows are cross-mullioned and transomed with leaded lights on the ground floor and mullioned windows on the first floor, including single and two-story canted bays, and bracketed oriels. A moulded string course runs between the floors, while pargeting is present on the gables of the west side and on the oriels of the south side. A doorway on the north side is distinguished by a Gibbs surround and segmental hood supported by Tuscan columns. Elaborate cornices, heavily moulded, dentilled, and modillioned, adorn the roof verges and eaves. The interior includes a quasi-Jacobean plastered staircase hall with barrel vaulting, wall-posts carved in an oriental style, supporting plates and ties. A landing features baroque plasterwork and a mural painting within oriel windows. Large fireplaces in the reception rooms are complemented by carved inglenook benches with leather and beaten metal panels.