48, Grange Road

48 Grange Road is a house built around 1880, likely designed by Basil Champneys. It was converted into student residences in the late 1940s. The building features red brick laid in English bond and has a machine tile roof. The main facade faces south and consists of two storeys plus a dormer attic, arranged in a four-window range. The central two bays are recessed and have two 6/6 unhorned sash windows on each floor, adorned with scalloped sash hoods. The ground-floor windows have plain aprons, while the upper ones feature ogeed aprons.

To the right and left of the sash windows, there is one circular window on each floor, which includes keyblocks and provides light to fireplace inglenooks. The outer bays each have a full-height canted timber bay window, which contains a central two-light casement beneath an arched light with radial glazing bars, flanked by six/six unhorned sashes. The ground-floor casements have been developed into French windows. A panelled frieze separates the storeys, and there is a pediment above the ground floor. The roof is gabled, with wide weatherboarded gable-ends over the outer bays, each featuring one two-light casement. The central gabled dormer is fitted with a four-light casement, and there are twin panelled stacks on the ridge.

The symmetry of the north elevation is disrupted by an early 20th-century extension to the left, which has one central tripartite window on each floor, designed similarly to the south front, along with a comparable gabled dormer in the roof. The doorway is set to the right and is covered by a deep coved hood.

Inside, the principal room in the south-west corner on the ground floor features an eared timber chimneypiece with scrolled bifurcated decoration and a panelled mantel shelf, along with a panelled overmantel. An inglenook is created by a screen of panelled pilasters supporting a frieze, and there is an open string staircase with turned balusters.