The Grange

UPTON SCUDAMORE ST 84 NE 8/221 UPTON SCUDAMORE VILLAGE The Grange GV II House. Early C18 with additions of early-mid C18 and of 1747 (datestone); altered mid C20 and renovated 1981. Rubblestone, rendered at front, with brick and stone dressings. Plain tile roofs. 2 storey, 3-bay house, formerly with entrance between left-hand bays having external rear-wall stack; 2 slightly-recessed, single-storey bays added to left and early-mid C18, these rebuilt 1981 with brick end wall and the right-hand bay raised to 2 storeys; 2-storey bay added to right end 1747. Main 4-bay range: right end has rusticated quoins, removed above 1st-floor sill level; entrance to bay 3 masked by 1981 gabled porch; ovolo-moulded mullion windows with dripmoulds, of 2 lights to left bay and above door, of 3 lights to bay 2, and a 1981 2-light chamfered mullion window to bay 4; roof hipped with stacks to rear between bays 1 and 2 and to right bay. Left-hand addition; 2-light flat-faced mullion windows with chamfered lintels and dripmoulds, the left bay with a stable door; stack between bays. Rear: mostly unrendered of rubblestone with brick quoins indicating different builds and a few stone quoins at right end of main range; main features are the two external stacks, offset at eaves level, the right-hand one very wide, both with brick quoins; windows are C20 casements or sashes, some having brick jambs, with wood or cement lintels. Right return: rusticated quoins; 1981 UPVC windows replacing sashes with glazing bars (photograph) those on 1st floor flanking datestone "WBA 1747". Interior: on ground floor, large-scantling chamfered beans; large-scantling bressumer to inglenook; angled corner fireplace in room adjoining that with inglenook having stepped stone surround; roof has collared principal rafter roof trusses with threaded through purlins and intermediate collared rafter trusses.

Listing NGR: ST8637647726