Saltaugh Grange Farmhouse

Saltaugh Grange Farmhouse is a farmhouse that dates from the late 18th century to early 19th century, with origins that may go back to the 16th century or earlier. The building underwent alterations around 1860, 1911, and 1986, the last of which included rebuilding the rear and the north wing. It is constructed of red brick and features a Welsh slate roof. The farmhouse has a T-shaped layout, consisting of a single-room south wing with an entrance hall that adjoins a two-room cross wing to the north.

The west entrance front is two storeys high, with three first-floor windows on the right and a single-window wing on the left. There is a rendered plinth, and the 19th-century doorcase has half-columns supporting a plain entablature, with a panelled door and plain overlight set in a panelled reveal. To the left, there is a 12-pane window, while to the right, there are three full-length 4-pane sash windows, all featuring sills and stucco flat arches. The first floor has 12-pane sashes in flush wooden architraves with sills and lintels at the eaves level. The wing has a ground-floor bow window, rendered below, with three 12-pane sashes beneath a plain entablature and a corniced wooden gutter, along with a 12-pane sash on the first floor. The right return of the wing includes a 12-pane ground-floor sash in a flush wooden architrave beneath a segmental header arch, and a similar first-floor sash with a lintel at the eaves level. The roof is hipped over the wing and features a brick ridge stack.

Inside, the entrance/stair hall has a flagged floor and an open well staircase with a ramped handrail and plain balusters, along with a reeded plaster cornice and an arched opening to the passage. The south drawing room and wing also have reeded cornices. The passage to the left features ovolo-moulded beams with tongue stops. The rebuilding work in 1986 removed earlier timber-framed walls encased in brick from the north wing, but remnants of framing may still exist in the entrance hall section. Historically, Meaux Abbey established a grange at Saltaugh in the 12th century, and the hall and chambers of the farmhouse are mentioned in the late 14th century.