Building record 6516 - Grange House, Nineteenth Century Farmhouse, Chester Road

<1> Vale Royal Borough Council, 2006, Vale Royal Borough Council's List of Locally Important Buildings (Report). SCH5487.

Criterion E: Buildings included in the Vale Royal Borough Council Historic Buildings Survey 1977-79

<2> Vale Royal Borough Council, 1977-79, The Vale Royal Borough Council Historic Buildings Survey Index Card, HAR/HB 10 (Paper Archive). SCH5481.

<3> L-P Archaeology, 2017, Archaeological Watching Brief Report: Grange Farm, Hartford, R4073 (Client Report). SCH8330.

An archaeological Watching Brief was undertaken intermittently between 2013 -2016 during groundworks at Grange Farm, Hartford. Planning permission was granted for the construction of up to 300 dwellings, associated parking and the re-use of Grange Farmhouse. During the evaluation, the area surrounding Grange Farmhouse produced exclusively post medieval ceramics, potentially suggesting that the current farmhouse is not built over earlier structures. Additionally, remnants of a structure in the form of a wall foundation made of unfrogged bricks was located at the north-eastern corner of the farmhouse. The remains were exposed for 1m in length and 0.44m wide and excavated to one course deep. It is thought to represent the foundation of an outbuilding contemporary with the farm.

<4> Various, Various, Oral communication to the HER, Jane Monk, 10/10/2017 (Oral Communication). SCH2330.

Historic Ordnance Survey mapping (see source 5) shows that originally the farmhouse formed part of a larger farmstead with further farm buildings, now demolished, located to the north-west of the farmhouse, also gardens/orchards to the south-east. Air photographs show that the farm building complex to the north-west of the farmhouse was demolished by 2003 (source 6).

<5> Ordnance Survey, 1871-1882, Ordnance Survey County Series (Epoch 1) 25 inch to 1 mile - Cheshire (Maps and Plans). SCH2462.

<6> Bluesky International Ltd, 1999-2003, 1999-2003 Bluesky Survey (Aerial Photograph). SCH5482.