Butterton Grange Farmhouse

Butterton Grange Farmhouse is a farmhouse built in 1816, with later alterations, designed by Sir John Soane for Sir Thomas Swinnerton of Butterton Hall. The building is constructed of reddish-brown brick with stone dressings, featuring a low-pitched slate hipped roof and wide projecting eaves. It has a neo-classical villa style with three bays across the front and two storeys. The central section is deeply recessed and flanked by giant canted brick pilasters, with angled pilasters at the corners. The windows are all four-paned sashes, with the ground floor windows being round-headed and topped with fanlights. A continuous cill band runs along the first floor. The central entrance is round-headed, also with a fanlight, and features a six-panel double door with four glazed upper panels. A notable design element is the central ashlar ridge stack, which has a blind arcade of five round-headed arches, with the central arch pierced and topped with a small pediment. The left-hand return has two bays with twin brick pilasters flanking a slight central recess. The interior has not been inspected, but it is known that Soane's original designs for the interior were never fully realized.