White House And Grange Fell

The following building shall be added to the list:-

ST 57 SE LONG ASHTON ABBOTSLEIGH ROAD LEIGHWOODS

5/10001 White House and Grange Fell

• II

Pair of dwellings. 1901 by Henry Dare Bryan. Roughcast over brick; gabled and hipped tile roofs with original rainwater goods; roughcast stacks. Longitudinal plan with dwelling at each end. Arts and Crafts style. 2 storeys and attics; 5-window range. Wood-mullioned windows of up to 4 lights with original shutters and iron catches etc to rectangular leaded casements. Swept roof with moulded guttering over two square bay windows to left. Broad overhanging eaves, surmounted by flat-roofed dormer to left with plain pilasters and moulded cornice, is continued to run beneath tall M-shaped gabled dormers to right which are built over 2- storey canted bays with central doorway. Other elevations in similar style, especially notable being the treatment of the gable ends, with eaves of roof wrapped around each gable, that to right under gablet flanked by stacks and that to left over canted oriel window and doorway with decorative bracketed hood in early C18 style. Interior: complete with panelled doors in moulded architraves, moulded cornices and fireplaces in classical and Art Nouveau style. The White House to left has pierced Art Nouveau splat balusters to staircase. Strapwork ceiling to rear left. Service doors with flat cornicing, the pantry having original shelves. Grange Fell noted as having complete interior and grained vaulting to entrance hall. A good example of an Arts and Crafts house, clearly influenced by the work of C F A Voysey.

Listing NGR: ST5562972870