East Grange South Grange West Grange is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 February 1988. Large house, dwelling. 2 related planning applications.

East Grange South Grange West Grange

WRENN ID
twelfth-tracery-barley
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cherwell
Country
England
Date first listed
26 February 1988
Type
Large house, dwelling
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a large house, now divided into three separate dwellings. It likely dates to the 18th century, but was significantly altered and extended around 1830 for Thomas Davis, with further alterations and subdivision in the late 20th century. The building is constructed of coursed squared limestone with ashlar dressings, flint with brick dressings, and brick, with some rendered areas. The roofs are covered with Stonesfield slate, artificial stone slate, and concrete plain tiles, and feature brick stacks. The architectural style is Gothick in design, comprising a “L” shaped plan with numerous additions.

The original main facade has a central crenellated flint porch with a wide Tudor-arched entrance, flanked by two-storey, tower-like brick projections. These projections feature a variety of pointed and Tudor-style windows, along with numerous carvings and decorative elements. An irregular four-window wing facing the road includes windows with lozenge-pattern glazing bars. A further range, parallel to and behind the wing, incorporates large Tudor-style windows and more decorative panels. Central rubble bays and the end of the rubble return wing to the right have similar parapets and decorative panels.

West Grange retains an original two-storey entrance hall, now divided horizontally, which features a plaster ribbed vault with elaborate bosses and corbels, along with five plaster roundels on the walls. Architraves in the hall and drawing room display heavy egg-and-dart decoration, mirrored by the hall fireplace and one panelled door. A fine mid-18th century painted fireplace includes consoles and festoons, with a black marble bolection-mould inner surround which might be an earlier 18th-century fireplace. South Grange includes egg-and-dart architraves and early 19th-century plaster cornices. East Grange has similar architraves on doors leading off the three-storey, apsidal stair hall, which contains a cantilevered stone stair with a cast-iron balustrade. The drawing room features late 18th century architraves and a fine Rococo fireplace with a rustic scene carved on the central panel.

Thomas Davis (died 1863), the Surgeon to William IV, reputedly brought some of the decorative work from Kew Palace. The fine 18th-century joinery is also suggested to have originated from Middle Aston House, which was demolished in 1806.

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