The Grange

The Grange is a large house dating from approximately 1911, designed by H. Steward Watling for H.G. Hepworth. It is constructed of red brick with rendered and close-studded first floors, all set beneath tiled hipped and gabled roofs. Tall brick chimney stacks feature corbelled caps. The house is built in a Vernacular Revival style and has wooden-framed windows, many with leaded lights.

The garden elevation is characterised by a pair of gables to the left, incorporating studs and curved braces between the render. These project over canted, two-storey bay windows, with rendered first floors featuring nautical relief sculptures. Tall ridge chimney stacks are positioned behind each gable, flanking a first-floor balcony supported by timber columns. A gabled dormer is situated to the left. To the right, a deep, sloping hipped roof incorporates a flat-roofed dormer and a pair of chimneys at the end. The first floor exhibits close-studding and a mid-rail detail. The left return elevation mirrors this detailing, with nautical relief and close-studding extending around to the Fronks Road elevation. The Fronks Road elevation has a full-height, canted entrance bay to the right, topped with a steep-gabled porch supported on wooden columns and a shallow segmental vault over the wood-panelled front door. Round windows are present in the canted returns. The first floor features stained glass windows, rising through the eaves to a parapet with a curved cut-out and a flat-roofed dormer behind. A large, advanced gabled range is centrally placed, echoing the detailing of the garden elevation.

The interior features a wood-panelled entrance vestibule with small stained glass windows, leading to a main hall with a wood-panelled ceiling, panelled dado, and plastered upper walls framed by narrow pilasters. An imposing 17th-century style wooden chimneypiece stands on the east wall. Further interiors include a large Classical marble fireplace, smaller marble fireplaces, and cast iron fireplaces with classical detailing, alongside plastered ceilings, ceiling roses, and moulded cornices. The main stair has fluted balusters and newels with capitals; the landing features four stained glass windows, each depicting a royal portrait. A stair to the attic has stick balusters and square plan newel caps, chamfered to polygonal cushion caps.

A date stone within the verandah wall reads 'Laid by M.M.H Feb.18 1911'. The building is a large former house, and represents a largely unaltered example of Vernacular Revival architecture, with fine interior plasterwork, panelling, and nautical relief plaques.