The Grange

SP 9228 NW HEATH AND REACH WOBURN ROAD

3/10016 The Grange

GV II

House. C18, remodelled and extended in 1906 by Thomas Handley Bishop for Willis family. Roughcast brick with some tile and stone dressings. Slate roof with stone coped gable parapets and modillion eaves. Brick axial and side lateral stacks with brick cornices and pots. Plan: The C18 6-bay house is at the centre and faced south. In 1906 it was remodelled so that the S front became the rear garden front and the north was given a 3-storey main entrance porch; and large asymmetrical cross-wings were added on the east and west sides, the east side with a service wing. All in an Elizabethan/ Arts and Crafts style. Exterior: 2 storeys and attic. Asymmetrical 1:3:1:3:1 bay N front with gabled cross-wings and gabled 2-storey porch to right of centre. Left cross-wing has canted oriel. Taller right-hand cross wing is treated as squat tower with cornice and small gable in parapet and 2-storey bay with diagonal buttresses. Central porch has ashlar doorway with segmental canopy, panel above with putti and initials DTW and MMW and dates 1799 and 1906. Above doorway is Ipswich window with leaded panes and small pediment and tile band and relieving arch above. Similar tile relieving arch over Ipswich window in bay on right and over oriel on left. Small single-light window in bays between. Rear S 2:2:2 centre with modillion cornice and colonnade an/with balcony above flanked by cross-wing on left with large canted 2-storey bay and canted wing on right with sundial and tile bands in gable. Interior: All 1906 joinery. Panelled entrance vestibule with inglenook and bolection chimneypiece. Open-well staircase with heavy turned balusters. 1906 chimneypieces and plaster ceiling cornices in principal rooms.

Listing NGR: SP9239828566