The Grange

The Grange is a building located on High Street in Hoddesdon, originally constructed for Sir Marmaduke Rawdon. It was altered in the early 18th century, around 1820, and again in the late 19th century. The structure has a timber frame core, with red brick featuring rubbed brick and plaster decorations, and a slate hipped roof, although the rear has machine tiles. The building is two storeys high with attics and has a symmetrical seven-window elevation.

The central part of the building features a pediment and deep bracketed eaves. There is a central semi-circular porch and balcony, which has been mostly restored. The ground floor includes fluted Doric columns, a mutule cornice, and a two-fold door from around 1820, surrounded by decorative reeding, paterae, and long consoles. The late 19th-century sash windows have cut brick surrounds and a moulded floor band, while modern box dormers have been added.

On the north elevation, there is a modern door hood supported by acanthus brackets dating from around 1700. The west elevation features similar brackets on a door south of the centre, along with two round-headed stair windows. The central door has an early to mid-18th-century Corinthian pilaster surround and a moulded cornice, with a stuccoed floor band below.

Inside, the building boasts much early to mid-18th-century oak fielded panelling. The entrance hall and the groin-vaulted cross passage have architraves and soffits decorated with a Greek-key pattern. The early to mid-18th-century staircase on the north side is adorned with fluted Corinthian pilasters along the side rails and Corinthian newel posts. Additionally, there is mid-17th-century oak panelling in the southeast ground floor room. The south side of the building has a two-block extension from the 17th and 19th centuries, with a stucco band carried across on the west side.