The Grange

The Grange is a house dating from the early 17th century that was extended and altered in the early 20th century. It features a timber-frame structure with red brick panels and plain tile roofs. The building is 2 and a half storeys tall and has an L-plan with a projecting northwest wing. The west end includes an imitation timber-frame extension. The north front has a wing on the left that sits on a high moulded plinth, featuring two basement ovolo-moulded mullion windows and a 19th-century leaded triple casement window on each floor above. Both the east and west sides have high dormer gables with small 19th-century oriel windows. The east side has a similar oriel below the first floor and a ground floor triple casement window. The main range has a ridge stack and a high dormer gable to the north with oriels, including an oriel on the first floor with a pair of casement windows to the left and a ground floor obscured by an early 20th-century ashlar projection with a parapet. There is a door to the left in a timber porch and a 4-light mullion window to the right, linking to an early 20th-century projecting gable with an ashlar ground floor and timber-framing above. The ground floor features a 2-light similar mullion window and a door to the right. A full-height gabled bay projects on the west side. The main range extends behind to the west end gable with an end stack. The east end of the main range retains its original framing but has a large early 20th-century 2-storey bay set to the right. The south front is original on the right with two high dormer gables that have attic casements. The main floors feature a large 2-storey early 20th-century canted bay to the right, an oriel to the left, and French windows below. An added range to the left has two dormer gables of varying sizes and imitation framing over red brick, which appears quite utilitarian. Inside, there are chamfered and stopped spine beams in the ground floor northeast room, with a cellar below and a bedroom above. Evidence in the roof suggests that the original house extended to the west on the side of the added range. The house was known as 'Gregories' until the 19th century and belonged to the Merewether family in the 17th century.