The Grange

The Grange is a range of monastic buildings from Wigmore Abbey, now serving as a house. It dates from the 12th and 14th centuries, with later alterations. The structure is built of sandstone rubble and ashlar, featuring sandstone dressings, and has tiled roofs with sandstone and brick stacks. It is designed in an L-shape, with arms extending to the west and south, and consists of two storeys plus attics.

The south elevation showcases the main 14th-century range, which includes a gable from the 12th century, alongside a 17th-century and 19th-century range to the right. The main range features four gabled dormers with cross-casements. On the first floor, there is a 3-light 15th-century traceried window with a flat two-centred head on the left, where the main lights have cinquefoiled heads. To the right of this window is a small 2-light casement and an early 18th-century door with eight panels, topped with a transom light and a pediment on brackets, accessed by a set of stairs rising from the left. Further right, between a pair of weathered 17th-century buttresses, are two 14th-century trefoiled and ogee-headed lights with a transom. To the right of the right-hand buttress is a 20th-century window with two semi-circular-headed lights.

On the ground floor, there is a blocked doorway on the left containing a 3-light 20th-century casement, a central restored 2-light mullioned window, and a less restored but similar window to the right. At the junction with the southern range, there is a porch with a hipped roof, supported at the corner by a shaft, likely from the 12th century, which is decorated with intersecting lozenges and a foliated capital. Inside the porch is a glazed 20th-century door. The gable front has two small square windows on the first floor and a 4-light mullioned and transomed ovolo-moulded window on the ground floor. On its right return, there are two stacks, one featuring three moulded brick shafts and the other with two shafts. The interior has not been inspected. Wigmore Abbey is a scheduled Ancient Monument.