The Grange And East Boundary Wall

The Grange is a house, dating to approximately 1862, and now operating as an old people's home. It may incorporate elements of an earlier dwelling, and was altered in the late 20th century. It was designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott for Mr Steele Perkins. The construction utilizes dressed Ham Stone, with red sandstone for decorative relieving arches. The roofing is a combination of patterned asbestos on the garden front and plain clay tiles on the entrance front. The building features overhanging eaves with sprockets, coped verges, external stepped stacks. It has a 'T'-plan layout, with a tower at the junction of the front.

The long garden front (facing South) presents a gabled two-and-a-half-storey bay on the left, a large lateral stack, and two bays to the right with a large external stepped stack on the right return. A recessed two-story wing is present, with two gabled dormers. The first floor has 2-, 3-, and 4-light mullioned windows under polychrome relieving arches. The ground floor has a 5-light mullioned window with 2 centred arch heads at the end left, a flat-roofed 5-light mullioned bay with pilasters supporting a frieze inset with coloured 19th-century tiles, and a pointed arch doorway with a stairlight and a canted 2-light bay to the right. A two-bay, flat-roofed, ashlar conservatory in a classical style is attached to the garden front, with a four-bay return.

The entrance forecourt has a catslide roof over a five-bay wooden verandah on the left, and a central, three-stage tower with a pyramid roof. Some 20th-century fenestration exists alongside original windows with multiple panes. To the right front is a single-story, multi-bay glazed loggia with trefoil-headed bays, built on a random rubble plinth. The west front has been altered, with 20th-century additions that are not included in the listing.

An attached boundary wall, running approximately 205 metres along the east gable end, terminates with a moulded, depressed four-centred arch doorway at the southern end. The wall is constructed of red sandstone random rubble, standing about 1.5 metres high, with irregular coping. The doorway is possibly of 15th-century origin, but the stops and plinth of the jambs are 19th-century. Local tradition suggests the house incorporates materials from the demolished church of St Mary Magdalene, Taunton, which was later rebuilt in replica by B. Ferrey and Sir Giles Gilbert Scott in 1862. An inspection of the building did not reveal any medieval elements, apart from the possible original doorway. In the 1970s, the house was converted into an old people's home.