Grange Farmhouse

TL 51 NE GREAT CANFIELD

2/32 GRANGE FARMHOUSE

II

Early C16 house with alterations and extension of circa 1800. Timber-framed, red brick facade on main house, other walls plastered, roof tiled. 4 bays, original external chimney stack near the middle of rear wall, chimney stack at NW gable. Extension at SE end with chimney stack in SE gable. 2 storeys. Brick facade on main house, Flemish bond, with dentils at eaves and shallow brick arches over windows. On ground floor, 3 sash windows circa 1800 each consisting of central light with double-hung 16-pane sashes and marginal lights with double-hung 2-pane sashes, containing many panes of crown glass, one with bullseye, Porch with slender Doric columns, circa 1800. On first floor, 4 C19 casement windows. Moulded red tiles set in brickwork above door. Extension single-storey with-attic, plastered, plain door with early C19 hood, C20 casement window, flat-roofed dormer with C20 casement window. Axial ceiling beam with double ogee mouldings visible in one bay, boxed in elsewhere, no other framing exposed internally. Crownpost roof, virtually complete in middle bays, some rebuilding in end bays. Central crownpost of rectangular section, chamfered arrises with broach stops at top and bottom, with 2 curved axial braces to collar-purlin inscribed IIII and V. This house was probably built with a continuous jetty at the front, but now underbuilt, the evidence concealed by brick facade and interior-plaster. It was of high quality originally, and has undergone only one phase of alteration.

Listing NGR: TL5848018364