Abbot'S Grange

Abbot's Grange is a house dating back to the 14th century, with significant additions from the 17th century. It was restored and extended in the early 20th century. The construction is of limestone rubble, with a stone slate roof.

The building is arranged around a north/south hall, a south-facing solar cross-wing, a small chapel projecting eastwards from the angle between the hall and solar, and a 17th-century wing attached to the south of the solar. Early 20th-century additions extend north and west from the site of the original service accommodation at the north end of the hall. Further additions of the same date project to the west from the south end of the 17th-century wing, and are set back to the right.

On the east side of the hall is a window of two trefoiled lights with a transom. To its right is a restored doorway with a chamfered pointed arch leading to the screens passage. To the left, across the angle with the chapel, is a window of two trefoiled ogee lights with a transom and flat head. The chapel’s east wall features a chamfered single-light window on the ground floor, above which is a window of two trefoiled lights under a pointed head with quatrefoil tracery. The 17th-century wing to the left has a four-light mullioned window on both floors, with a single-light window to the left of the ground floor. An early 20th-century gabled projection adjoins the hall. A range of similar date, which was formerly a studio, is set back and has a window of six lights with three transoms. On the west side of the hall are two windows of two trefoiled ogee lights with flat heads and transoms. The first floor of the solar has a window of two trefoiled lights under a pointed head with quatrefoil tracery.

The early 20th-century wing projecting from the north end of the hall has a stone canted bay window on the upper storey, supported by two square and two round piers to form an open porch. The parallel range on the south side has plain reveals, two attic dormers, and some applied timber framing.

Inside, at the north end of the hall are three stone doorways with sunk quadrant mouldings; the two eastern ones have ogee heads. A similar doorway at the east end of the south wall leads to the chapel undercroft, above which is a squint. The hall has three raised base-cruck trusses, the outer ones against the hall's end walls. The central truss has an arch-braced collar with an ogee moulding which originally extended down to floor level in stone but is now cut back. The rafters are arch-braced, and the wind braces are large and curved. The solar’s roof features moulded wall-plates, curved wind-braces, rafters with arch-braced collars, and an arch-braced collar truss with timber wall-posts. The solar contains a restored timber screen with carved tracery, brought from elsewhere.