Benningham Grange

OCCOLD BENNINGHAM GREEN TM 17 SE 1/31 Benningham Grange - II Farmhouse. C16, the main range extended to left in late C18. Timber framed and plastered. Roof to front of main range has double Roman tiles, with 2 rows of slates at the foot of the slope. Remainder pantiled. 2 storeys. A 3-cell main range with service wing to rear forming L-shape plan. 3 windows, old 4-light mullion and transom casements without glazing bars; wooden hoodmoulds. Central late C18 doorway, the doorcase with eared architrave and broken pediment supported on brackets with guttae; 6-panel raised and fielded door, blind semi-circular fanlight with Y-tracery and cusping. Flanking the doorway is a pair of cross windows. Internal stack with plain oblong shaft, the lower part original. Later stack at left gable end. Hall has mutilated chamfered-joist ceiling and an open fireplace; at one end the studded former outside wall of the C16 range is visible. Upper floor not examined.

Listing NGR: TM1687370239