Grange Farmhouse

SP70NW 1706-0/1/10001

TOWERSEY Grange Farmhouse

II

Farmhouse; derelict. Circa early C17; extended in C18. Timber-framed and brick. Plain tile roof with gabled ends. Brick gable-end stack and large lateral stack with three brick shafts. PLAN: C17 two and halfbay timber-framed range with a lateral stack on the north east side. In the C18 a brick range was built to the south comprising one room and a stairhall and forming a new front; to the rear north there is another C18 brick wing. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic. 2-window south east front range with 3-light casements with glazing bars, central doorway and gabled dormer with small casements; right-hand part of front is overgrown with ivy. At rear gable-ended timber-framed wing on left with red brick nogging and further to left a brick wing parallel to front range. INTERIOR: C17 timber-frame of two and half bays with jowled posts, tension-braces and clasped-purlin roof with wind-braces. The C18 wings have butt-purlin roofs; the south wing has C18 2-panel cupboard doors, but mainly Victorian joinery, staircase and cast-iron chimneypieces.

Listing NGR: SP7428505534