Grange Farmhouse

SO 43 SW ABBEY DORE CP -

6/9 Grange Farmhouse

29.9.52

• II*

Farmhouse. Possibly C14 or C15 with late C16 to early C17 and later alterations and additions. Sandstone rubble plinth and south wall, timber-frame with plaster infill, brick, Welsh slate and tiled roofs, brick ridge stack. Cross-passage plan, three plus one structural bays aligned north/south with smaller elements at each end. Two storeys. West elevation has 2:1 windows, 2-light mid-C19 casement to left, 4-paned window to left of porch and 3-light casement in first floor of porch; ground floor has 3-light casement to left and two small windows, one to each side of granary steps on right-hand side. Frame is close-studded with four panels from cill to wall-plate; two-storey porch has arch braces from corner posts, close-studding to flanks and first floor with parallel raking struts from king-post to principals in gable front; ridge stack has coupled diagonal shafts, entry under porch has moulded frame, ledged and strap-hinged door possibly late C16; second entry with C17 ledged door at top of stone granary steps; attached to left is single-storey former solar part, with plank-and- muntin screen and moulded triangular door-head partly masked by brick stack; to the right is a mid- to late C19 single-storey brick extension, probably formerly a wash-house. East elevation of granary has first floor moulded re-positioned oriel window, without mullions, and probably cut down. Interior: C17 staircase with turned balusters. Several 2-centred moulded door-heads, one leading from present kitchen to possible former buttery, moulded and chamfered ceiling beams; room in porch, formerly a chapel, has elaborate plasterwork with fleur-de-lys, acorn patterns, grotesque head, rosettes and "IHS/1603". Main trusses each have three posts from tie to collar from which rises a central post to apex formed by principals. An exceptionally well preserved timber-framed building with elaborate Jacobean decoration (RCHM Vol I, p 9 - 10).

Listing NGR: SO4034631166