48, Grange Road

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TL 4458 667- /16/10049

CAMBRIDGE GRANGE ROAD (east side) No.48

II House. c.1880 probably by Basil Champneys. Converted to student residences late 1940s. Red brick laid in English bond; machine tile roof. Principal facade to south. Two storeys and dormer attic in four-window range. Centre two bays recessed and lit through two 6/6 unhorned sashes to each floor. Scalloped sash hoods. Plain aprons to ground-floor windows, ogeed aprons above. One circular window to each floor to right and left of sashes, with keyblocks. These light fireplace inglenooks. Outer bays each with a full-height canted timber bay window consisting of central two-light casements beneath an arched light with radial glazing bars. Six/six unhorned sashes either side. Ground-floor casements developed into French windows. Panelled frieze between the storeys, and a pediment over ground floor. Gabled roof. Wide weatherboarded gable-ends over the outer bays, each with one two-light casement. Central gabled dormer fitted with a four-light casement. Twin panelled stacks on ridge. Symmetry of north elevation compromised by early C20 extension to left. One central tripartite window to each floor of same design as south front, similar gabled dormer in roof. Doorway set to right under deep coved hood.

INTERIOR: principal room to south-west corner on ground floor: eared timber chimneypiece with scrolled bifurcated decoration and panelled mantel shelf. Panelled overmantel. Inglenook created by screen of panelled pilasters supporting a frieze. Open string staircase with turned balusters.

Listing NGR: TL4401558205