Benningham Grange

Benningham Grange is a farmhouse dating from the 16th century, with the main range extended to the left in the late 18th century. It is timber framed and plastered, featuring a roof at the front of the main range covered with double Roman tiles and two rows of slates at the foot of the slope, while the remainder of the roof is pantiled. The building is two storeys high and has a three-cell main range with a service wing at the rear, forming an L-shaped plan.

There are three windows, which are old 4-light mullion and transom casements without glazing bars, each topped with wooden hoodmoulds. The central doorway, dating from the late 18th century, features a doorcase with eared architrave and a broken pediment supported by brackets with guttae. The door itself is a six-panel raised and fielded design, with a blind semi-circular fanlight adorned with Y-tracery and cusping. Flanking the doorway are a pair of cross windows.

Inside, there is an internal stack with a plain oblong shaft, with the lower part being original, and a later stack at the left gable end. The hall has a mutilated chamfered-joist ceiling and an open fireplace, with the studded former outside wall of the 16th-century range visible at one end. The upper floor has not been examined.