The Grange

TL 8422-8522 COGGESHALL GRANGE HILL (west side)

9/128 No. 10 (The Grange) 2.5.53 (formerly listed as Grange Farmhouse)

GV II

Wrongly shown on OS map as Grange Farm. House. Circa 1600, altered in C18 and C19. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. Main range facing NNW with 2 axial stacks. 2-bay rear wing at left end, and 2-bay rear wing near right end, with external stack to right. Between the wings, stair tower, and single-storey lean-to extension with slate roof. 3 storeys. Ground floor, one C18/early C19 sash of 12 lights and 2 early C19 tripartite sashes of 2-12-2 lights. First floor, 2 similar sashes and 2 early C19 tripartite sashes of 4-12-4 lights. Second floor, 3 early C19 sashes of 16 lights. Off- centre fielded and moulded 8-panel door with oval lights in the top panels, in doorcase with fluted pilasters, and an introduced plaster bust in the place of each capital; moulded flat canopy. The main range and the left rear wing have hipped roofs. Single-storey splayed bay of full-height sashes of 4+4 lights on left return, late C19. The stair tower has a gabled dormer to the right, window blocked. Access to interior refused at time of survey, July 1987, but internal features described in RCHM (Little Coggeshall) 5 are reported to be present. Shown on estate map of 1639 (Essex Record Office, D/DOp, P.1).

Listing NGR: TL8493822201