Overtown Grange Farmhouse

SE31NE WALTON THE BALK

3/45 Overtown Grange Farmhouse

II

House. Late C17 with mid-C20 alteration. Well-coursed punch-dressed stone, modern concrete tile roof. 2 storeys with single-storey rear outshut. 3-cell plan with service rooms to rear of 1st and 2nd cells. Quoins. Continuous dripmould rising over former door. All windows are altered with lowered sills and most mullions removed but still retain shallow double-chamfered surrounds with almost square reveals. From left to right: former 4-light window with same above; blocked window and window inserted in original doorway; 4-light window to each floor. Coped gables with kneelers and brick stacks; one other ridge stack at junction of first 2 cells. Rear: original doorway obscured by later lean-to, small chamfered window above. Outshut breaks forward and has a 3-light window to left of two 2-light windows with windows above inserted under eaves. Left-hand return has large external stone stack with shouldered offsets and doorway to right with quoined lintel and tie-stone jambs. Gable partly rendered at lst-floor level.

Interior: 1st cell (former kitchen) has a wide fireplace opening with a shallow segmental head (blocked). King-post roof. RCHM (England) report.

Listing NGR: SE3559216544