Grange

Grange

J N Scott and A Lorne Campbell, 1904-1907. A two-storey quadrangular-plan Scottish Baronial style mansion with seventeenth-century Renaissance details, dominated by a four-storey square tower. The building is harled with cream sandstone ashlar dressings and features a crenellated parapet to the tower. Detailing includes chamfered window reveals, an interrupted string course at first-floor level, dormer-headed windows with round-headed open pediments cradling finials to the principal elevations, and crowstepped gables.

The south (entrance) elevation is asymmetrical. A four-storey tower stands off-centre to the left, featuring a mullioned and transomed hall window at ground level with regular fenestration above, a corbelled crenellated parapet, a corbelled polygonal stair turret to the south-east angle, and a bartizan to the south-west corner of the tower. An advanced end bay to the left contains a canted mullioned and transomed window with a stone roof at ground level, a pair of pedimented monogrammed Renaissance windows at first-floor level, a date stone inscribed '1907', and a gablehead window above. A single-storey balustraded porch in the re-entrant angle features a window in its south face, and a doorcase on the return to the right with a moulded surround and blocked Scamozzi Ionic pilasters, a pediment with an armorial crest and thistle motif above, a two-leaf door, and a deep-set half-glazed vestibule door. A two-bay slightly recessed wing to the right of the tower contains a canted window to the centre flanked by windows, with two dormer-headed windows above. An advanced gabled end bay to the right has regular fenestration, a gablehead window, and a two-storey circular corner tower with windows facing south-east (corbelled at first-floor level) and a conical roof.

The east (side) elevation is asymmetrical, with six advanced bays to the right, three gabled bays to the centre, and a lean-to projection with paired windows. Regular windows flank the outer right. A recessed bay to the outer left contains three windows at ground level and a window above, with a circular stair turret corbelled and set in a re-entrant angle, topped by a conical roof.

The north (rear) elevation has a gabled return to the east wing with a forestair to the outer left. A single-storey, seven-bay wing to the right features bipartite windows to each bay, with a segmental-headed carriage arch to the fifth bay from the right.

The west (side) elevation has five asymmetrical bays. An advanced gabled bay off-centre right contains a tripartite mullioned and transomed window at ground level, corbelled above with a corbel course overstepping the window, and small gablehead windows. A tall wallhead stack rises to the right. A single-storey conservatory stands in the re-entrant angle to the right, with a dormer-headed window to the outer right. Three bays to the left feature a canted window to the centre, flanked by bay windows to the right and left at ground level, a small basement window to the right, a moulded string course at first-floor level, and dormer-headed windows above. Four single-storey bays to the left contain two tripartite windows to the centre and a gabled bay to the outer left with a bipartite window and apex stack, with a boarded door to the outer right.

The conservatory is rectangular in plan with a gabled roof and a semi-circular entrance porch to the west. It has three bays to the side elevations, a harled base with ashlar buttresses dividing the bays, and piers with finials to the outer corners.

The courtyard has flat-roofed dormers. The north elevation features a three-storey stair bow off-centre right, a door to the basement, a two-storey wing to the right with a further door to the far right, and a coped wallhead. The east elevation has a two-storey block to the left and a single-storey, three-bay wing to the right with a door to the left. The south elevation consists of a single-storey, six-bay section with a carriage arch to the centre and three doors to the right, with windows flanking to the left. The west elevation has a door to the centre with windows to the left and a coal door, a set-off first floor with two dormer-headed windows and a bipartite dormer to the left, and a three-storey crowstepped gable to the right with a door to the far right and windows at ground and first-floor levels.

Throughout the building, twelve-pane sash and case windows predominate, with multi-pane casement windows used elsewhere. The roof is of grey slate with tall harled stacks and beak skewputts. Original rainwater goods survive.

The interior features an oak-panelled hall with a decorative plaster ceiling, a marble chimneypiece, and a tripartite arcade to the landing. The drawing-room to the left (west) is entered through an ante-room with a marble chimneypiece flanked by bowed timber and glass cabinets. The drawing-room itself has a Connemara marble chimneypiece set in a recess, with plaster ceilings in both rooms. The rooms are divided by walls featuring a miniature balustraded arcade terminating in piers with Scamozzi Ionic capitals. An oak-timbered library to the north has a chimneypiece framed by Ionic pilasters and a decorative plaster ceiling. The dining room and former billiard room to the south are oak-panelled with beamed ceilings. A dog-leg stair off the landing to the north leads into the stair tower. A boarded cladding lines the room at the top of the tower. Original fixtures and fittings survive throughout.

A terrace garden with pavilions and a loggia to the south of the house was designed by Scott and Campbell in 1905. The garden is enclosed by harled walls with sandstone coping. A sunken terrace garden is accessed to the north by a pair of quarter-turn stairs flanking a semi-circular loggia with two Scamozzi Ionic columns to the centre and Gibbs pilasters, a decorated frieze (badly weathered) and a tall parapet. Roll-moulded architraves flank doorpieces leading to small recesses. Gateways to the east and west are of squared sandstone rubble with moulded reveals and keystones. Two-storey pavilions stand to the south-east and south-west corners, both harled with ashlar dressings, quoins and an eaves course. The south-east pavilion has a door to the south at ground level, dormer-headed windows to the north, south and east, and a dormer-headed door to the west at first-floor level, topped by a grey slate ogee roof with a ball finial. The south-west pavilion is a mirror image. An obelisk sundial stands to the east of the house.