Building record 1947/1 - Grange Farmhouse

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 55495 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

Farmhouse: dated 1653, upper storey rebuilt late eighteenth century and late nineteenth century addition to rear. English garden wall bond and Flemish bond orange brick. Welsh slate roof and two brick chimneys. Rectangular plan with two short ranges to rear. Three-storey, symmetrical three-bay front. Brick plinth, plain pilasters between bays on ground and first floor and a moulded band at first floor, treated as a cornice with remains of key-blocks over the windows (or possibly indications of central pilasters). End bays have inserted three-light windows with small-pane iron casements under cambered brick heads, with two-light casements in half dormers in top storey. Projecting gabled three-storey porch has four-centred headed stone door-case with restored lintel reading AD 1653 EBM, and graffito GV 1755 on jamb. Two small windows above. Plain band on both floors of the remainder. Interior: one chamfered ceiling beam and a restored four-centred headed stone fireplace. Remaining fittings in pine. - If the date is correct, this is remarkably early use of classical detailing on a vernacular building.

<2> Various, Various, Oral communication to the HER, Turner RC (Oral Communication). SCH2330.

A stone seventeenth century fire surround with pointed hatchments on the lintel, removed from the house, was stored loose in an outbuilding.