Grange Cottage

Grange Cottage is a small manor house, later used as a farmhouse and now a house, likely dating from the 15th and 16th centuries. It has been altered and probably reduced in size. The building is constructed of stone and brick, all rendered and covered with a composition tile roof. It incorporates a former timber-framed structure and has a hall-and-crosswing plan, consisting of a 1 1/2-bay hall range with a 2-bay receding crosswing to the left, and a rear outshut to the hall.

The hall range is one and a half stories high, while the wing is two stories high. Most of the openings have been altered. The south facade features an inserted segmental-headed doorway near the junction of the hall and wing, two single-light windows to the left, and a three-light casement to the right, with a dormer window in the roof above the doorway. There are slightly swept eaves, and chimneys on the right-hand gable and at both gables of the wing. The left return wall of the wing has a stone plinth and two three-light casements on each floor. The gable wall of the hall range has an inserted doorway towards the rear, two windows at ground floor, and one window above. The rear of the building has a catslide roof.

The interior originally featured an open hall with two cross frames and a crown-post and collar-rafter roof. One of the cross frames is approximately half a bay from the east gable wall; it has a cambered tie-beam with roll-moulding in the centre of its soffit and long mortices (with four peg holes) on each side, indicating former bracing to the wall posts, presumably with similar decoration. The other cross frame is now concealed within a partition wall. Both frames have crown posts with braces on the inner sides to the collar purlin in the roof space, where the purlin is trenched into the crown posts, and the collars are tenoned into the rafters; all are of large scantling and closely spaced. An inserted floor is supported by two stop-chamfered lateral beams of 17th century style. In the crosswing, wall posts and wall-plates are visible but not exposed, and the upper floor has two roll-moulded spine beams carrying a canted ceiling. The ceiling is otherwise concealed from below by polystyrene tiles, but in the roof space it appears to be plastered. The wing has a collar rafter roof with members of lighter scantling than in the hall range, and the collars are half-lapped to the rafters. Note that this building is one of only a few examples of crown post roofs over halls in West Yorkshire, alongside Sharlston Hall (where a feature has been removed) and Marston Old Hall (which has been demolished).