Greenways Grange And Attached Stable

Greenways Grange is a house dating back to the 17th century, with additions from the early 18th and 19th centuries, located in Chippenham. The construction uses coursed limestone rubble with freestone quoins and dressings, topped with a steep-pitched stone slate roof to the original and 18th-century sections, and pantiles to the 19th-century addition. A double brick stack is at the left gable end, a moulded ashlar stack at the right gable end, and a brick stack at the rear of the 18th-century block.

The house was originally designed with a two-unit through-passage plan. The room on the left side was raised and remodelled in the 18th century. A 19th-century pantiled lean-to stable is attached to the left. The right side has one room each in the 18th and 19th-century extensions. The front elevation is two stories high, featuring a five-window range. The 17th-century section is slightly set forward, displaying two ovolo-moulded stone-mullioned four-light leaded windows at the eaves. A 20th-century porch now covers the entrance to the through passage. The 18th-century range has timber lintels over two two-light leaded windows, with one window being a 20th-century replacement. The rear has timber lintels over 19th/20th-century casements. A doorway leads to the former stable range, now with a mid-20th-century door and windows.

Inside, the ground-floor rooms feature panelled shutters and window seats. A 18th-century six-panelled door (formerly the front door) within the porch opens to the stone-flagged through-passage, which is largely fitted with 18th-century plank and panelled doors. A timber-framed partition wall is on the left side of the passage. The room to the left has an early/mid 18th-century fireplace with a moulded wood surround and a chamfered axial beam supported by a carved timber corbel. The ceiling was raised in the 18th or 19th century. The rear wall of the deep chimney-breast on both floors has a concave curve, suggesting a former location of a newel staircase. The 17th and 18th-century roofs retain three-bay structures with collar-beam trusses and wide elm floorboards in the attic. The room on the right (west) has a chamfered axial ogee-stopped beam set in a deep chimney-breast, featuring a Tudor-arched open fire with sunk spandrels. A doorway with an old chamfered wood lintel leads to an 18th-century kitchen block. A further 19th-century room, likely a scullery, has tongued-and-grooved panelling, a large dresser, and a pump drawing water from a well in the front garden. The roof pitch of this section has been raised.

The attached stable has tenoned purlins and an S-shaped brace from the wall. The rear of the stable retains slots in the main beam, suggesting it was formerly completely floored, and some wooden railed sections remain around the feeding mangers. The floor is laid with 19th-century high-fired black ceramic tiles with raised squares. These features combine to offer group value.