Grange Farmhouse

BAMPTON BAMPTON GRANGE NY 51 NW 12/79 Grange Farmhouse 6.2.68

GV II Farmhouse now private house. Mid C17 with additions dated over entrance T&MI 1703 (Jackson); late C18 additions and early C19 alterations. Painted rendered walls on projecting stone plinth. Graduated greenslate roof with stepped gables; original rendered stone chimney stacks. 2 storeys, 3 bays with left single-bay extension (probably originally a barn or stable) under common roof and rear 2-storey, single-bay extension, forming overall L-shape. House has 2 original C17 ground-floor windows, one retaining its chamfered stone mullion. Other windows are sashes in C18 or C19 painted stone surrounds. Left extension has cross passage with Tudor-arched doorway, the lintel inscribed. Straight joint above right of doorway shows that this part is an extension. Late C18 double sash windows with glazing bars in painted stone surrounds. Rear outshut contained dairy with small casement window in plain reveal under drip- stone; return wall of outshut has loft doorway reached by external stone steps. Rear extension has sash and casement windows in C18 painted stone surrounds. Interior has early C18 stone fireplace with flanking panelled cupboards that at right dated and inscribed TM (J covered by plaster ceiling) 1704. Complete beamed ceiling. Parts of C18 panelled partition survives. Some early C18 panelled doors. Exposed roof beams in upper floor. Reset early C18 panelled screen in left extension. Rear C17 semicircular stone staircase, externally covered by outshut and extension. Former dairy has stone slab shelves. A panelled court cupboard of 1696 has been removed since 1936, see RCHM, Westmorland, p30.

Listing NGR: NY5208818093