Grange Farmhouse including attached Brewhouse/Dairy and Lower Cowhouse (aka The Grange)

Large early C18 Renaissance farmhouse. External render, whitewashed; slate roof with projecting end-stacks. Three storey S front is symmetrical. Windows are hornless sashes with shallow stone sills. Ground floor (centre) has rendered C20 porch with gabled slate roof and C20 3-pane metal windows to side walls. Inner entrance doorway has 4-pane rectangular overlight, C20 4-panel door. Flanking entrance on each side are 24-pane sashes with marginal glazing bars, in wide segmental-arched openings. First floor has three 12-pane sashes in narrower segmental openings. Second floor, three smaller 4-pane sashes in square openings with flat heads. To left of main house is a one-and-a-half storey block. Whitewashed render, slate roof and partially projecting gable stack with stepped offsets. Ground floor (l to r) has 2+2+2 pane casement and C20 glazed door. Above, in centre of roof slope, is gabled attic dormer with 2+2 pane window. Back elevation has 2+2 casements on first and second floors; a 2-light leaded window on ground floor and a small leaded staircase window. At lower ground level are two doorways (centre), a 2-light mullion window with iron stanchions (left). At E gable, on each side of stack, are 1-light sunk chamfer mullions with iron stanchions. At back of one-and-a-half storey block, a single-storey brewhouse/dairy wing projects at right angles. Rubble stone walls; corrugated asbestos roof, and big stone stack projecting at N gable with recessed brick flue. W front has (r to l) boarded door with monopitch canopy, and a 6-pane window with shallow stone sill. To left of entrance, a low stone wall, approximately 2m long, projects forward. On the lower side of this wall is a stone drinking trough with farmyard below. Attached to end-gable of brewhouse/dairy at this lower level is a single-storey stone cowhouse with corrugated metal roof. W front has (l to r) a boarded door, next a blocked door, and then two boarded doors.

Centre entrance lobby has coved ceiling cornice, 4-panel doors. Ground floor rooms have shutters with fielded panels and dado rails. Room to right of entry has moulded ceiling cornice and C20 fireplace; room to left, blocked fireplace opening (former C18 wooden eared architrave stored in cellar). Behind entrance lobby is pantry with C18 8-panel door. Centre rear oak stair with winders and wall rail. Each of the upper floors has three bedrooms. On first floor is a good C18 bolection moulded fireplace surround, with hob grate. Second floor has re-used roof timbers, 6 bays, collar trusses, two tiers of purlins. Interior of one-and-a-half storey block has ground-floor kitchen with chamfered ceiling beams, panel shutters, and spit rack above fireplace.

Lower cowhouse has 5-bay interior and early C19 roof-trusses with angled queen struts. Brewhouse/dairy interior not seen at time of resurvey.