The Grange

The Grange is an early 17th-century house that was refronted in the 18th century and remodelled in 1926 by Sir Edwin Lutyens. The north front has an ashlar plinth, brown brick with red dressings, stone quoins, and cills. It features a panelled parapet angled upwards to the right, with a plain tiled roof hidden behind it. The facade is two storeys and an attic, with seven windows arranged slightly irregularly. A central attic window is present, along with five first-floor windows and four ground-floor windows, two of which on each side have been blocked. Above the central entrance is an “oeil de Boeuf” (bullseye) window, and the flanking windows have gauged round-arched brick heads with carved stone imposts. The windows, except for those mentioned above, have gauged flat-arched brick heads and open boxed glazing bar sashes. The central entrance has panelled pilaster strips and scroll brackets supporting an entablature with a pulvinated frieze and flat hood, and a part-glazed, part-panelled door.

The east front is red brick with two half-hipped gables above a moulded wooden cornice. It has two storeys and a four-window front with glazing bar sashes and open boxes. The south front has a red brick ground floor, except to the right, which is rendered. It has three half-hipped gables, the left one set back, the centre one wider, and the right one three storeys high. A valley chimney-stack is located to the left. The first floor has three glazing bar sashes, one on the ground and second floors under the right-hand gable. A wide, centrally located, flat-roofed glazed 19th-century weather porch is present, alongside a 20th-century doorway to the left, flanked by pilaster strips supporting a flat entablature with a pulvinated frieze.

The west front is red brick with a plat band and moulded cornice. It has two storeys and five windows, glazing bar sashes with gauged heads, and three blind windows on the first floor. This side was remodelled by Lutyens, who altered the 19th-century stables to the left. The red brick stables have return gables that are tile-hung, featuring two storeys and two windows to the north with long margin-light casements. To the south, an 18th-century cottage was incorporated, built of random rubble stone, partly galletted, with red brick dressings and a plain tiled roof. This cottage has a stack on the east end and a ridge stack, and features three casement windows to the south. At the time of the Lutyens’ alterations, the front entrance was moved to the rear.

The interior includes a tall, narrow T-shaped hall with a landing at the far end and a staircase to the right. The dining room, designed by Lutyens, features oak fielded panelling with a moulded cornice, a green marble surround to the fireplace, panelled window shutters. Brass door locks copied from early 18th-century locks found elsewhere in the house. The drawing room, also designed by Lutyens, has oak panelling and a panelled marble fireplace.