Thorley Wash Grange

TL 41 NE THORLEY LONDON ROAD (west side) Thorley Street

4/26 Thorley Wash Grange (Formerly listed as 22.2.67 Thorley Wash Farm)

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House. Circa 1700, over C16 or earlier cellar. Refronted early C18. Main rooms and stair refitted early C19. Porch and kitchen wing after 1845. Large square double-pile house of 2 storeys, attics and cellar. Timber frame plastered, W and S walls roughcast. Steep old red tile hipped U-shaped roof with twin gables at rear (W). Central chimneys on mid wall. Later C19 single storey rendered brick kitchen extension at NW with steep old red tile roof. Symmetrical plan with central entrance and stair with main rooms each side in front part of house. Winding servants' stair backs onto main stair rising to attics on S. Separate stair to E attics from 1st floor rear, old kitchen with massive red brick fireplace and timber lintel on Ground floor NW. Storage room at SW retains timber grilles for larders. Symmetrical front on E with 2 hipped 2-light tiled dormers behind plastered parapet with moulded capping and projecting moulded wood dentilled cornice carried round tops of 2 canted bay windows, and returned 5 feet on N and S walls. Flush box sash windows with moulded architraves and 6/6:8/8:6/6 panes in bays and 8/8 panes over central door. 6-panel C18 door, raised and fielded panels, with broad moulded architrave and rectangular fanlight with lead fan with arrows and swags. Narrow panelled pilasters truncated for gabled C19 open tiled porch supported on tapered cast iron columns with flared heads carrying archaic Greek style Ionic capitals. 2 moulded stone steps. N side has 2 windows on each floor, 1 gabled dormer on right and a projecting box eaves with dentilled bed mould. Flush box sashed with moulded architrave and 8/8 panes. Top left a fake window painted in recess. 3-light wooden mullioned windows with leaded panes and iron opening light on 1st floor rear and to larder on S wall. Plank doors with iron strap hinges and iron pins and spring latches in attics and servants' stair. Diamond leaded old glass casement used as borrowed light next to larder. 2 panel C18 doors with H hinges remain on 1st floor rear but front rooms on both floors have early C19 6-panel moulded doors, marble or wood moulded fire surrounds with pretty Edwardian tiled grates. Moulded panelled dados in main Ground floor rooms. Cast iron basket grates in 1st floor SE room and NW room. A fine house clearly showing domestic changes over 3 centuries.

Listing NGR: TL4867818246