The Grange

The Grange is a detached house consisting of three parallel ranges constructed in the 17th, 19th, and mid-19th centuries. The core of the house dates to 1637, with a front range added in the early 19th century and a rear range in the mid-19th century. The front range is rendered, while the original 17th-century section is built of flint and limestone, and the mid-19th century range uses dressed limestone. The entire structure is roofed with tiles, featuring coped verges and brick stacks.

The plan incorporates a corridor linking the rear and 17th-century ranges. The main front has two stories and two windows, with a projecting two-story, one-window section to the left. A half-glazed 19th-century door is situated to the left of the original 17th-century portion; to the right is a 12-pane tripartite sash window. The left-hand range features a single 12-pane tripartite sash window on the ground floor. The first floor of the 17th-century range has an 8-pane sash and a 12-pane tripartite sash, with a tripartite sash on the left-hand range. The right return of the left-hand range includes two 12-pane sashes on the ground floor and a tripartite sash above. All front windows have moulded wooden architraves, and there is a dentilled eaves detail.

The right return of the 17th-century range displays a 4-light ovolo-mullioned window and a single ovolo-moulded casement, both with hoodmoulds, on the ground floor. The first floor has a blocked 4-light ovolo-mullioned window also with a hoodmould. The attic possesses a 3-light ovolo-mullioned window with a hoodmould, and a datestone is incised with the date 1637, along with initials "RM". To the right is the gable of the rear wing, exhibiting a 4-panelled door and two 16-pane sashes on the ground floor, and a single 16-pane sash on the first floor. The left return of the 17th-century range has two small casements set within beaded stone cases on the ground floor. The first floor has two 2-light casements in similar beaded cases, and the attic features two single ovolo-moulded casements. To the left is the rear mid-19th century range, with a 16-pane sash window in the gable.

The rear of the 19th-century service range has a 3-light casement and a planked door to the right, with a single 16-pane sash window in a moulded stone architrave above.

The interior retains good 17th-century features. A room to the right of the front door has an open fireplace with a chamfered timber lintel set on stone jambs. A chamfered ceiling beam is adorned with carved rosettes and the date 1637 alongside the initials "RM." There’s an original oak plank and muntin partition extending from the ground floor to the first, and reset wainscot panelling on the first floor. The ground floor to the left has early 19th-century fittings, including a dentilled ceiling cornice, 6-panelled doors, a marble fireplace, and internal shutters. A room above has a fireplace with a reeded surround.