Grendon Hall

Grendon Hall is a former house, now serving as offices for Springhill Prison. It was built in 1882 by Rev. Randolphe Pigott for his brother Sir Digby Pigott. The building is constructed of red brick with painted stone quoins, bonded window surrounds and copings, and moulded brick eaves. It features tiled roofs and brick chimneys, designed in a Jacobethan E-plan style with shallow projecting outer bays and a porch. The outer bays are adorned with shaped gables and 2-storey canted bay windows that have painted stone mullions and transoms, along with embattled ornament on the parapets and diaper panels between the storeys. The attic windows are 3-light with hoodmoulds and shields above. Each intermediate bay has two cross windows per storey and 2-light attic dormers with stone crosses in ogee gables. The central porch includes a 3-light transomed window with a hoodmould on the first floor, a 2-light attic window, and a door set in a 4-centred stone arch with a hoodmould, featuring stone shields above the door and in the shaped gable of the porch. The chapel at the rear of the left wing has a battlemented porch with a 2-centred arch. Inside, the hall boasts ribbed plaster ceilings and fireplaces with 4-centred stone arches, including one in the dining room with a wooden Gothic surround. The ground floor doors are in a Renaissance style with carved ornament, while the first floor doors feature moulded architraves with panelled and fluted friezes and dentil cornices. A fine 17th-century staircase, which has been re-sited, showcases turned balusters, a moulded handrail, and urn finials. The altered chapel has an open truss roof, an inserted floor, and a coffin hatch with a re-used 16th-century wooden surround.