Building record 0256700000 - GRANGE FARMHOUSE

Dimensions - Length 20m, Width 11m.
Plan Form - Subrectangular.
Window bears date 1629 & initials 'W E' (ie, of former owner, William Elmer?)(B1).
Description (B5).
Grade II. House. Dated 1629. W.E. on plaque over porch window. For William Elmer. Whitewashed rubble stone to ground floor and return walls of side wing, timber framed first floor, jettied to front, with whitewashed brick infill and braces to gable ends. Old tile roofs with bargeboards and cross finials to gables, central stacks. L-plan, side wing projects to right. Two storeys. Main wing: has three bays. 3-light leaded casements to outer bays and first floor gable end of side wing. Timber lintels to ground floor windows. Lower left-hand window flanked by small rectangular recesses with timber lintels. Centre bay has two storey timber framed gabled porch, first floor jettied on three sides with dragon beams. Ground floor open to front and part of left side, remainder has heavy turned wooden balusters with brick infill below. First floor has small 3-light leaded oriel window to front on central bracket and with date plaque to gabled top. Stop-chamfered door frames. Hipped single storey extension to left of main wing, lean-to to rear. RCHM II p.63 MON 8 (B6).




The Grange, a farmhouse, is of two storeys, built in the 117th century, and said to be dated 1629; the walls of the lower storey are of stone, of the upper storey timber-framed , with filling of modern brick. The roofs are tiled. The plan was originally of the central chimney type, with a projecting porch on the SW front; a long, narrow lean-to addition at the back and NW end and a wing at the SE end were added probably in the 19th century. On the SW ELEVATION the upper storey projects, and has a gable with a modern barge-board: the porch has an open lower storey; the sides are formed by turned balusters set on dwarf walls with a narrow opening; the doorway is framed with heavy, moulded timbers, and above it the upper storey is timber-framed and has a gabled projecting window with moulded mullions, supported on shaped brackets; in the gable is said to be a small medallion inscribed '1629. W.E.', now hidden by creepers. The NE ELEVATION is covered by the lean-to addition. Interior:- The first floor is supported by two chamfered beams. Condition-Fairly Good; the porch has settled slightly, but is strengthened by modern posts (B2).

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