Thorley Wash Grange

This is a large, double-pile house dating from around 1700, with a cellar believed to be from the 16th century or earlier. The front of the house was re-faced in the early 18th century, and the main rooms and staircase were renovated in the early 19th century. A porch and kitchen wing were added after 1845. The house is timber-framed and plastered, with roughcast on the west and south walls. It has a steep, hipped roof covered in old red tiles, with twin gables at the rear (west). Central chimneys are located on the mid wall. A single-storey, rendered brick kitchen extension with a steep red tile roof is situated to the northwest.

The house has a symmetrical plan, featuring a central entrance and staircase, with principal rooms on each side of the front portion. A winding servants' staircase rises to the attics on the south side, while a separate staircase gives access to the east attics from the first floor at the rear. An old kitchen on the ground floor northwest retains a large red brick fireplace with a timber lintel. A storage room at the southwest retains timber grilles where larders once stood.

The symmetrical east front has two hipped dormers behind a plastered parapet. The parapet has a projecting, moulded wood dentil cornice which runs above the two canted bay windows, and is returned 5 feet along the north and south walls. Flush box sash windows with moulded architraves and 6/6:8/8:6/6 panes are in the bays, and 8/8 panes are above the central entrance door. The front door is a 6-panel door from the 18th century, with raised and fielded panels, a broad moulded architrave, and a rectangular fanlight with a lead fan depicting arrows and swags. A narrow panelled porch, supported on tapered cast iron columns with flared heads carrying archaic Greek style Ionic capitals, protects the entrance - a two step ascent.

The north side has two windows on each floor, one gabled dormer on the right, and a projecting box eaves with dentil moulding. Flush box sash windows with moulded architraves and 8/8 panes are present. A fake window has been painted into the recess on the upper left. A 3-light wooden mullioned window with leaded panes and an iron opening light is located on the first floor rear, and another is in the larder on the south wall. Plank doors with iron strap hinges, iron pins, and spring latches are found in the attics and servants' stair. A diamond-leaded old glass casement is used as a borrowed light next to the larder. Two-panel 18th-century doors with H hinges remain on the first floor rear but the front rooms on both floors have early 19th-century 6-panelled, moulded doors. The fireplaces have moulded panelled dados on the ground floor and marble or wood moulded fire surrounds with Edwardian tiled grates. Cast iron basket grates are in the first-floor southeast and northwest rooms. This is a fine house that demonstrates domestic changes over three centuries.