Swallow Grange Farmhouse And Attached Stable

Swallow Grange Farmhouse and attached stable, dating from 1825, was altered in the 20th century. The farmhouse is constructed of pale brick with concrete tile and Welsh slate roofs, featuring three brick gable chimney stacks. It is arranged in an L-shape.

The main front has a central doorway approached by six steps, featuring a moulded and painted door surround with a 20th-century door and overlight. Flanking the doorway are single canted bay windows with pilasters and slate roofs. These bays contain horned sash windows, with some having margin lights. Above the bays are three glazing-bar sash windows. The left return has a ground-floor doorway under an open porch, and a small glazing-bar sash window above. The right return has two glazing-bar sashes on each floor, with a small 20th-century window inserted between the first floor sashes on the ground floor. The rear facade has a tall staircase window with glazing bars and two glazing-bar sashes to the right, with two inserted 20th-century windows. A two-storey wing on the left contains a segment-arched opening with a 20th-century glazing and door, and a small glazing-bar sash above. A wall to the right links to a single-storey stable range at the rear, which has a pantile hipped roof and various shuttered openings and plank stable doors.

The farmhouse is part of an important model industrial farmstead. Model farmsteads developed in the 18th century as a British response to agricultural improvement in eastern England and Scotland. The Duke of Yarborough, who owned 55,000 acres in Lincolnshire and was a leading ‘improver,’ created this steading, which is nationally significant and comparable to examples on the Alnwick and Lilleshall estates. A detached horse gin (for powering barn machinery) and the cartshed range are notable examples of farmstead architecture.