The Grange

The Grange is a small country house with its core dating back to 1608, as indicated by a datestone on the south wall. The west front was added around 1751, and there are additional side wings from approximately 1810. The building features ashlar stone on a plinth, with rusticated and chamfered alternating quoins, a heavy moulded stone cornice with returns, and a tall parapet wall that includes four inset fielded panels. The roof is covered with Cotswold stone slate, and there are ashlar stacks with moulded cornices.

The house has a large U-shape, consisting of two storeys and an attic, with a classical symmetrical west front that has five bays arranged in a 2/1/2 pattern. The central wide bay slightly projects forward and is accentuated with additional quoins and a pediment that reaches the top of the parapet. This bay features a single Palladian window with a Gibbs surround, while the remaining windows in the side bays are all 12-pane sashes with moulded stone architraves.

There is a central projecting porch with a pediment and a slate roof, supported by fluted Roman Doric pilasters. The porch includes a triglyph and rosette frieze with guttae, and it has a large six-panel door with fielded panels, flanked by two fixed six-light side windows. The sashes on either side of the porch are smaller than those on the rest of the façade and have plain stone architraves. A plat band runs between the floors.

The additional single-storey side wings each have one real 12-pane sash in a plain reveal and one painted false sash at each end. The attic features three hipped dormers. The south wall, which includes the datestone, has a very wide rounded arch that cuts into the first-floor level and four 9-pane sash windows with moulded stone architraves. The stonework on this side is now coursed and dressed, but the southeast corner retains alternating quoins and only the corner piece of the cornice. The inner faces of the U-plan have two and three-light stone mullion windows.

Inside, there is a very fine entrance hall with a timber open well stair that features three turned and twisted balusters on each tread, a ramped and wreathed handrail, and a panelled dado. The interior also contains much original joinery and fireplaces.