Butterton Grange Farmhouse

SJ 84 SW WHITMORE C.P. TRENTHAM ROAD (north side)

6/182 Butterton Grange Farmhouse II*

Farmhouse. 1816 with later alterations. By Sir John Soane, for Sir Thomas Swinnerton of Butterton Hall (q.v. under Park House). Reddish-brown brick with stone dressings, low-pitched slate hipped roof and wide projecting eaves. 3 x 2 bays; elegantly mannered neo- classical villa style. 2 storeys; 3-bay front with central section deeply recessed and flanked by giant canted brick pilasters facing each other; angled and canted pilasters also to corners; windows all 4-paned sashes, those to ground floor round-headed and with fanlights to top; continuous first floor cill band; central round-headed entrance with fanlight like those to ground floor windows, 6-panel double door with 4 upper panels glazed; central ashlar ridge stack with a blind arcade of 5 round-headed arches (central one pierced through and with a small pediment above), an important element of the design. Left- hand return of 2 bays with twin brick pilasters flanking slight central recess. Interior not inspected, but it is known that Soane's designs for this were never carried out. B.O.E., p.92; Howard Colvin, A Biograph- ical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600-1840 (1978), p.770.

Listing NGR: SJ8430842111