Headley Grange

SU 83 NW HEADLEY LIPHOOK ROAD

8/56 Headley Grange

II

A large house, but built as a House of Industry (workhouse) in 1795 by the parishes of Bramshott, Headley and Kingsley: associated with riots in 1830, sold in 1870 when minor changes were made to the building. Stone walls and tiled roof. Symmetrical front (west) of 2 storeys and attic, 9 windows (the 2nd and 3rd bays now masked by a 2 storeyed Victorian splayed bay of 1.3.1 windows.. Mansard roof, brick dentil eaves, 5 dormers with steep gables (c1870) with cusped bargeboards, hipped roof to the bay, hipped roofs to the wings. Ashlar ironstone walls with brick dressings; quoins, cambered openings, plinth: the cills were lowered cl870. Victorian sashes. Central Gothic stone porch, with a steep gable, decorative kneelers, buttresses, cambered chamfered opening below a relieving arch, plinth, side windows, and coupled doors. The rear (east) elevation is similar, symmetrical with a central projecting wing and 4 windows on each side. There are 5 original flat roofed dormers with moulded cornices, and coupled leaded lights, some original leaded lights in coupled oak frames (some former windows now filled). A 2 storeyed flat roofed block has been added. On the south side, the single storeyed wing turns and continues for some distance; beyond it there is a stone wall, and at the south-east corner a rectangular building fills the angle, having a ½-hipped roof. The design is repeated on the north side, with shorter buildings and 2 lengths of wall. The east boundary of the enclosure is a high wall, with a central gateway, flanked by piers.

Listing NGR: SU8261035626