The Grange

A house of complex build history, dating from the 16th century with 17th century additions, later extended in the late 19th century. The building comprises several sections arranged around the site, with a main range and multiple crosswings. It is constructed partly from timber framing and partly from brick, mostly rendered, though some framing and brickwork are exposed. The roofs are laid with plain tiles.

The main range is two storeys and three bays. The ground floor is built in Flemish bond brick, while the first floor consists of rendered timber framing. Two of the bays clearly date to the 16th and 17th centuries, whilst the left-hand bay falls within the late 19th century extension. A central doorway of late 19th or early 20th century date is set beneath a raking plain-tiled roofed porch supported on brackets. To the left and right are later 20th century replacement three-light cross casements. Three first-floor three-light casements feature rectangular leaded lights, with the central light larger than its neighbours. At the left end stands a gault brick axial chimney stack with recessed panels; a red brick stack is positioned to the rear of the main range. Both stacks have oversailing caps.

The left-hand crosswing is two-and-a-half storeys. The ground floor is built in Flemish bond brick, whilst the upper storeys display exposed tension-braced timber framing. A moulded brick band runs beneath the exposed first-floor joist ends. The ground floor contains a partially glazed small-paned French window. The first floor features an oriel window with rectangular leaded lights and a gable cross mullion. Shaped barge boards and drop finials, including a finial to the gable apex, decorate both the front and rear of this wing. The left-hand return has two external red brick stacks with oversailing caps, linked to the crosswing by timber-framed plaintiled links. At first-floor level, the return incorporates a two-light cross mullion with leaded lights between the stacks; a similar ground-floor window is positioned to the left, with an off-centre single light between the stacks.

The rear of the main range is decorated with pargetted work in raised square panels subdivided by a flush cross and central circle, alternating with squares, some bearing raised bosses. A ground-floor oriel window features 20th century diamond leading alongside closely spaced original mullions, which may have been reset; these are cavetto and roll-moulded. Immediately to the left is a five-light mullion window with hollow and roll-moulded mullions. Above, the first floor displays a four-light ovolo-moulded window with 20th century diamond leading, and similar shorter two-light sections to left and right. To the right are ground- and first-floor 20th century casements of one and two lights respectively, and an early 20th century brick embattled two-storey extension with two casements per storey.

The right-hand wing is a jettied two-bay-depth crosswing with gable to the road and exposed frame. The first floor shows two tiers of tension bracing, with arch bracing to the gable and single tension bracing to the ground floor. A two-light plain casement at ground-floor level has four panes, whilst the first floor has a four-pane two-light casement. To the left, perhaps the original main range, has been extended to house a stack; now internal within the gable wall, the gault brick shaft retains recessed panels. Facing the road at ground floor are a two-light four-pane casement beneath a label, with shorter two-light sections to left and right featuring original cavetto-moulded mullions. The first floor has a two-light four-pane casement. The ground-floor frame is exposed. The rear wall, now the right return to the entrance front, contains a ground-floor glazed door and first-floor small-paned window which obscures a mullion window fitted with an internal shutter slide.

Interior: The original ground-floor chamber features a two-centre arched doorway in a transverse wall, an axial beam with cavetto and roll mouldings, and cavetto-moulded joists. A similar cavetto and roll-moulded beam stands over a former inglenook. An early 17th century blind arcaded panel is reset over the fireplace, with a raised panel to its right. In the crosswing, a brace to a transverse beam matches the profile of the doorhead in the parlour. A blocked three-light diamond mullion window is visible on the first floor to the rear bay of the right-hand wall. The side purlin roof features queen struts; tie beam braces are missing. The posts are jowled, with braces to left and right of the front bay of the frame. Both parts of the house have replaced splat baluster stairs.