The Grange

The Grange is an 18th-century house that was remodelled and extended in 1906 by Thomas Handley Bishop for the Willis family. It is constructed of roughcast brick with some tile and stone dressings, topped with a slate roof featuring stone coped gable parapets and modillion eaves. The building has brick axial and side lateral stacks with brick cornices and pots.

Originally a six-bay house facing south, the 1906 remodelling transformed the south front into the rear garden front and added a three-storey main entrance porch to the north. Large asymmetrical cross-wings were added on both the east and west sides, with the east side including a service wing, all designed in an Elizabethan/Arts and Crafts style.

The exterior features two storeys and an attic, with an asymmetrical northern front comprising one, three, one, three, and one bays. The gabled cross-wings flank a gabled two-storey porch located to the right of centre. The left cross-wing has a canted oriel window, while the taller right-hand cross-wing is designed as a squat tower, complete with a cornice, a small gable in the parapet, and a two-storey bay supported by diagonal buttresses. The central porch boasts an ashlar doorway with a segmental canopy, a panel above featuring putti and the initials DTW and MMW, along with the dates 1799 and 1906. Above the doorway is an Ipswich window with leaded panes, a small pediment, and a tile band with a relieving arch above. Similar tile relieving arches are found over the Ipswich window in the right bay and over the oriel in the left bay, with small single-light windows in the bays between.

The rear south elevation has a 2:2:2 centre with a modillion cornice and a colonnade with a balcony above, flanked by a cross-wing on the left featuring a large canted two-storey bay and a canted wing on the right that includes a sundial and tile bands in the gable.

Inside, all joinery dates from 1906, featuring a panelled entrance vestibule with an inglenook and a bolection chimneypiece. The open-well staircase has heavy turned balusters, and the principal rooms contain 1906 chimneypieces and plaster ceiling cornices.