Hartley Grange

Hartley Grange is a country house, dating to the late 17th or early 18th century, that has been subdivided into five dwellings. It was remodelled and enlarged in 1869 for William Walkinshaw, a Scottish banker, further extended in 1893, and finally subdivided in 1960. The house is constructed of blue brick in a header-bond pattern, with red brick dressings, and Flemish bond red brick to the rear. It has plain tile hipped roofs with brick and openwork stone parapets and finials, and axial stacks with grouped octagonal shafts.

The original house forms the right [north] end of the building, and in 1869 it was remodelled, refaced at the front, and extended by one bay to the north and five bays to the south, creating a rear wing. The remodelling was carried out in a Jacobean style. The front of the house is asymmetrical, with eleven bays. The original section has a nearly symmetrical two-bay front with a recessed gable, a Venetian window on the first floor, and a porch with a round arch doorway and pierced parapet with finials. There is a wide canted bay window to the left, with a similar parapet; sash windows with flat brick arches, the ground floor window to the right having been converted into a doorway; a brick platband and moulded brick band below the parapet; and C18 lead rainwater drainpipes in the central recess. Other rainwater heads are dated 1869. A one-bay addition is on the right, and a further extension, set back slightly on the left, is arranged as one, one, and three bays, terminating in a squat three-storey water tower on the left, with a pierced parapet, finials, and round-headed slits on the second floor. A projecting bay to the right has a shaped gable, and a canted bay on the ground floor. A carriageway was inserted in 1960. The rear elevation features three bays of the original house on the left, with giant pilasters and a platband. The left bay has a Victorian canted bay, the centre bay a shaped gable, a one-bay addition on the left, and a large Victorian red brick wing projecting on the right. The interior was not inspected.