The Grange

The Grange is a large red brick rectory, built in 1861 by Edward Haycock, Jnr. of Shrewsbury, and later converted into a rest home. It has yellow sandstone ashlar dressings, blue and yellow brick enrichments, and a banded plain tile roof with ridge tiles. The southwest elevation is characterised by a pair of gabled sections with stepped corbelled eaves featuring blue and yellow bricks. The first floor has two-light windows with stone surrounds, decorative heads, central colonette mullions and polychrome lintels; a central single-light window is also present in a stone surround. The ground floor features a tall two-light window and a blocked window, both beneath deep polychrome lintels. A recessed area behind the central stone lintel contains a wooden overlight in a scalloped frame. A corbelled ridge stack displays blue brick detail. The southeast elevation includes a tall canted bay with five windows in stone surrounds with tapered heads and colonette mullions. Above this are two lights with cusped heads and a colonette mullion in a stone surround, with a similar window in the central bay. The ground floor has a squared pair of lights. To the right is a slightly advanced gable with matching eaves details, a first-floor two-light window under a gauged polychrome lintel, and a ground-floor canted bay with four windows. A single-storey bay to the right features a pair of lights in stone surrounds, a central colonette, a flat roof with stone coping, and a ball finial to the corner. 20th-century dormers have been added. The northeast elevation has an advanced single-storey section to the left with a prominent chimney breast and stack behind, and a large gable to the right with plainer corbelled and stepped eaves. Some windows have been replaced in the 20th century. A 20th-century extension to the northwest is not of special architectural interest. The interior features a splat baluster staircase and doors and architraves with castellated, geometric and Gothic detailing. It has group value with the adjacent and contemporary Holy Trinity Church, also by Edward Haycock, Jnr.