The Grange

The Grange is a house dating back to approximately 1500, with significant alterations in about 1620, the mid-18th century, the early 19th century, and the 20th century. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings, timber framing, and some red brick laid in an English garden wall bond. The roofs are tiled, with raised stone coped gables, a single tall brick ridge stack, and an ashlar 18th-century double square funnel gable stack with a moulded cornice.

The main range is long and has a short projection to the rear. The two-story front has six bays, with the right-hand three bays being an added rubble construction to a c.1500 brick-cased timber-framed hall block. A six-panelled door with a plain overlight is set within a wooden, fluted pilastered surround supported by a flat leaded hood. It is flanked by single large plain sash windows; below the right-hand window is a three-light sliding sash cellar light. To the left is a tripartite plain sash window and two three-light plain casements. On the first floor, there are two plain sashes through the eaves to the right and two three-light plain casements to the left. A single-story service wing projects to the left of the main block, featuring a raised stone coped gable, two planked doors, and single two- and three-light plain casements. Ground floor windows have wooden lintels, while those on the first floor have plain ashlar surrounds. A scratched date of 162_ appears on a window cill of the right-hand gable.

The 18th-century rear wing has a rubble base and chamfered ashlar plinth. It exhibits a three-bay front with a first-floor band, dogtooth eaves course, and a hipped plain tiled roof. The ground floor features two canted bays with double French doors and margin-light sashes to the sides, each with a hipped plain tiled roof. On the first floor, a 20th-century two-light glazing bar casement window is flanked by single glazing bar sashes, all with cambered brick heads. The rear wall of the hall block consists of coursed limestone rubble to first-floor height, with earlier blocked fenestration of sub-Medieval pattern.

Inside the hall range, there are jowled wall posts, and the roof is of oak with massive wind braces pegged to the purlins, which are trapped by low collars braced to the tie beams. Common rafters are also of oak, and there is a ridge piece. There are five bays of this construction, and a timber-framed partition grooved to take panels. Beyond are a further five bays of roof, also of trapped purlin construction but without principals. The roof shows no evidence of smoke blackening. In the 18th-century rear range, the left-hand room has a moulded wooden fire surround with cornice and a shouldered and eared over panel, flanked by six-panelled doors with semi-circular heads and broad architraves with fluted keyblocks. The room also has a moulded cornice.