The Grange

The Grange is a farmhouse dating from the early 17th century, with a late 19th-century exterior. It has two storeys and attics in the main range, and 1½ storeys at the rear, forming an L-shape. The building is timber-framed, with the front range faced in red brick on the ground floor and rendered above, while the rear is fully encased in brick. The roofs are plaintiled and feature ornamental ridge tiles. There is one chimney stack at one end and another on the rear wall.

The house has two gabled dormers adorned with ornate pierced and fluted bargeboards and spike finials, and similar bargeboards are present on the two gable ends. The first floor has four windows in a heavy mullion-and-transom style: two are 4-light and two are 2-light. The ground floor has three similar windows, two of which are 4-light and one is 3-light. The entrance features a studded door with applied pilaster strips, set beneath an ornate porch roof with bargeboards and Gothic brackets.

The front range has a basic three-cell plan that has been modified by early and later 19th-century alterations. Most of the timber frame is covered, but the ground floor room at the west end retains an ovolo-moulded main beam, while the central room has two boxed-in beams and an original fireplace with a Tudor arch, plastered to simulate stone. The rear range features diamond-leaded panes in its casement windows, some of which date back to the 17th century and were repaired and reset when the house was encased in brick. The interior consists of three bays with plain main beams exposed. There is also a 19th-century lean-to along the west side. The farm was formerly the grange to Flixton Hall, and the exterior reflects the style of estate houses favored by the Adair family.