Grange House

Grange House is a workhouse office building, dating to 1848-49, with a contemporary extension and later bay windows; it was renovated in 1994. Originally part of the Grange Hospital (now St Mary's), it is now used as student flats. The architects were JB and W Atkinson. The building is constructed of orange-cream brick in English garden wall and stretcher bonds, resting on a brick plinth. Bay windows are in orange brick with a sandstone plinth and dressings. It has shallow-pitched slate roofs with widely overhanging eaves, supported by shaped timber brackets.

The main front is a three-storey, nine-bay facade, with a two-bay extension to the left. Pilastered outer angles visually emphasize the corners. The original end bays project forward, each featuring a canted bay window on the ground floor. A round-arched doorcase, consisting of two orders, is centrally located with a recessed glazed door and a semicircular fanlight above. The three windows in the central bays are recessed radial glazed sashes beneath arcaded, round arches with a stone impost band. The canted bays have three similar sash windows recessed in triple-keyed orange brick arches, with moulded cornices and plain parapets with moulded stone copings. The first floor windows are cambered-headed 12-pane sashes; the central one is within a pedimented moulded brick surround with a stone sill and a brick apron. Others have segmental brick arches, a stone impost band, and a sill band. Second-floor windows are squat 12-pane sashes with flat brick arches and a painted stone sill band punctuated by pilaster strips. Windows in the extension are similar in style.

The rear elevation is three storeys with eleven bays, and features one- and two-storey projections at each end, linked by a single-storey glasshouse. The glasshouse contains glazed double doors centrally and a four-panel glazed and panelled door to the right. Other ground floor openings are sash windows of varying types. A Venetian staircase sash window is present on the first floor of the projection to the right. Elsewhere, the first and second floor windows are 12-pane sashes, with the second floor windows squat, excepting where altered or inserted. First-floor windows have segmental brick arches, and second-floor windows have cambered arches. The returns have windows on each floor mirroring those on the main front.

The interior staircase has close strings, turned bobbin balusters, a plain handrail on square newels with ball finials.