The Grange And Attached Wall To North

The Grange is a house, likely largely dating from the late 17th or early 18th century, with an earlier section attached to the rear. Later additions and alterations have also been made. The construction is of roughly coursed limestone rubble, with regularly coursed limestone blocks forming banded stonework to the front. The roof is slate, with 20th-century sprocketed eaves to the front. The main range is in a T-plan, with a contemporary gabled range set at an angle to the rear on the left. An earlier range is attached to the rear of the short rear section of the main range. The house has two storeys and an attic. The front features three large 20th-century wooden mullioned and transomed windows with leaded lights and 19th-century chamfered wood lintels. A central entrance has 20th-century glazed double doors, with the outline of a former gabled porch visible above. There are three contemporary hip-roofed leaded dormers in the roof slope. Integral end stacks have dripstones and red brick tops, with the right-hand stack rendered. The earlier rear range incorporates a three-light leaded casement window on the ground floor and a large wooden mullioned and transomed window (also 20th-century) above it on the garden side. An integral end stack to this range has a top rebuilt in the 20th century. An attached wall, probably dating from the early to mid-19th century, is made of regularly coursed limestone rubble with an embattled parapet and a sharply pointed arch on the left, extending approximately 20 metres. The interior of the front part of the house features chamfered cross beams to the ground-floor rooms – two to the right have been knocked into one. There are also chamfered ceiling beams to the first floor. The earlier rear range has a massive, deep-chamfered cross-beam ceiling with chamfered joists and a ring-beam, possibly dating from the late 16th century. A large inglenook fireplace with a moulded wood lintel is present at the gable end, and a remodelled inglenook fireplace is located at the junction with the main range. The first floor of the earlier range has a high ceiling with two boxed cross beams. The attic reveals a double-purlin roof in three bays with two doubled collar trusses. The principal rafters rise directly from the wall tops and do not rest on the cross beams, suggesting the range was originally open to the roof at first-floor level. This, along with its unusual character, suggests that it may have been built as a communal hall or meeting place. A 20th-century gabled addition in the angle to the right, between the main range and earlier rear range, and a 20th-century flat-roofed extension to the latter, are not considered to be of special architectural interest.