The Grange Hotel

The Grange Hotel is a former house, dating from the mid-to-late 18th century, with additions and alterations made in the early 19th century, the 20th century, and the 21st century. The building is constructed of local stone, with later brick additions and some cement rendering. The roofs are tiled with clay.

The building has a double-depth plan with extensions to the east and rear. Principal rooms are arranged on either side of a central hallway, with an additional room to the east. Rooms on the first and second floors are accessed by a stairwell in a later range to the rear of the hallway. Modern buildings extend the length of the plot to the south.

The front facade is three stories high, with three bays, and an additional bay set back to the east. The front has end pilasters, ground and first-floor platbands, and a blocking course with a coped stone cornice. The ground floor features three-light canted bays with 12-pane sashes on either side of a central doorway. The first floor has Venetian windows in the outer bays, with sashes; the window on the right has intersecting Y-tracery in the head, while the left bay's sash is a replacement. The central bay has a single-light, round-arched sash window with a Y-tracery head. The second floor has tripartite 12-pane sashes in the outer bays and a single 12-pane sash in the centre. A projecting gabled porch from the 19th century has Tuscan Doric half-columns, sidelights, and a part-glazed, panelled outer door with margin glazing. A 20th-century glazed inner door is present, and the original pediment may be concealed above. A 19th-century extension to the left has a 20th-century gabled porch and a blind window on the second floor. The ground floor of the west flank has three 12-pane sashes. The second floor has two 12-pane sashes divided by a mullion in the centre, while the outer bays have 20-pane sashes. The second-floor windows are uPVC.

Inside, much of the original 18th-century internal walls and chimney breasts remain, along with some joinery on all floors, including windows with rebated shutters, skirting boards, dado rails, and sections of 18th- and 19th-century plaster cornice. The shutters in one first-floor room open in two parts. A ground-floor room in the early 19th-century bay has a cast-iron ceiling rose. One bedroom on the upper floor has a late 19th-century cast-iron fireplace. The stairs, doors, many internal partitions, and other fittings are modern replacements. Some exterior walls have had their internal plaster removed. The roof structure has been altered with replacement timbers, but retains some 18th- and 19th-century fabric. The buildings to the rear of the main 18th-century house lack noteworthy features.