The Grange

SO 9527 16/102

BISHOPS CLEEVE The Grange

II

House. Built 1865 for the Griffiths family; squared and coursed limestone with ashlar dressings; gabled plain tile roofs with tile crestings and bargeboards; ashlar ridge stacks finished in rendered octagonal flues. L-plan with rear left wing. Gothic Revival style. Front (east elevation) of 2 storey and attic, triple-gabled 5-window range. Gabled centre bay has ironstone tympanum arch over pointed-arched 2-light attic window, canted oriel window with leaded lights, stone mullions and transom, and fine foliate carving to corbels above moulded pointed- arched doorway with finely-carved foliate capitals to engaged shafts and stops to hood mould; inner porch has hood mould with foliate stops over lancet lights flanking studded door with fine scrolled wrought-iron hinges set in pointed-arched architrave; 2-light pointed-arched attic windows and ironstone tympanum arches over similar mullioned and transomed windows with leaded-lights, including crenellated bay window to ground floor of gabled bay to left which has bracketed pointed-arched bargeboards with carved detail. Similar detail to other elevations, which are asymmetrically composed and include stair tower to north, bargeboarded gable over 2-storey canted bay window to south and pointed-arched doorway with studded door flanked by gabled bays with bargeboards to west. Interior not inspected but noted as retaining original features.

Listing NGR: SO9519627125