Grange Farmhouse (EHER 37275)

Early 16th century timber-framed house with red brick facade.

Early 16th century house with alterations and an extension of about 1800. It is timber-framed with a red brick facade on the main house, the other walls plastered, and the roof is tiled. There are four bays, an original external chimney stack near the middle of rear wall, and a chimney stack at the north-west gable. The house has an extension at the south-east end with a chimney stack in the south-east gable. It is two storeys. There is a brick facade on the main house, in Flemish bond, with dentils at eaves and shallow brick arches over windows. It has moulded red tiles set in brickwork above door, an axial ceiling beam with double ogee mouldings visible in one bay, boxed in elsewhere, with no other framing exposed internally. The house has a crownpost roof, virtually complete in middle bays, with some rebuilding in end bays. It has a central crownpost of rectangular section, chamfered arises with broach stops at top and bottom, with two curved axial braces to collar-purlin inscribed IIII and V. This house was probably built with a continuous jetty at the front, but now underbuilt, the evidence concealed by brick facade and interior-plaster. It was of high quality originally, and has undergone only one phase of alteration. <1> See: <2>