Stainton Grange And Garden Walls

This is an early to mid-18th century farmhouse, with later 19th-century extensions to the rear. It is located on the south side of Staiton and Staiton Way, near Thornton. The house is built of brick with sandstone dressings, featuring a clay pantile roof with stone ridge and gable copings, and rendered end stacks. The plan is L-shaped, with three storeys and five bays, with a slightly projecting, pedimented one-bay centre. A renewed panelled door is set three steps up and is situated within a Roman Doric doorcase featuring a segmental pediment. Sash windows with glazing bars and moulded sills are set within gauged-brick flat arches. Panelled shutters are present on the ground-floor windows. The middle first-floor window is flanked by later, smaller casement windows, and the second-floor windows have six panes. Architectural details include a plinth, bands between floors, chamfered quoins, and a rendered parapet with moulded copings. Contemporary garden walls, one built in the late 18th century on the left and a later 20th-century wall on the right, adjoin the property. The return to the right features a three-window wing with similar windows and a renewed door leading up three steps, and a large 24-pane horizontal sash window on the ground floor. The rear of the house features a central pent staircase wing with a Venetian window, and a two-storey hip-roofed extension.

Inside, the entrance hall contains an open-well staircase with shaped tread ends, column-on-vase balusters with spiral turning and square knops, a moulded handrail that is ramped at the ends and scrolled at the bottom onto a column newel and curtail step. A dogleg back stair features similar, but smaller balusters and a closed string. The left ground-floor room has a modillion ceiling cornice. The fireplace surround is an eared architrave with a scrolled foliage-ornamented pulvinated frieze and an egg-and-dart cornice, complemented by a similar panel above the chimney. The right ground-floor room has an altered fireplace, also within a similar panel on panelled pilasters. A moulded ceiling cornice sits above a deep frieze enriched with garlands of fruit and flowers. Similar cornices and fireplace surrounds are found on the first floor, alongside painted wood panelling. Panelled doors and reveals are set within wooden architraves throughout. Panelled window shutters and window seats are on the ground and first floors. A building named Wellfield House, adjoining the rear, has been too altered to be of particular interest.