Description

SP4349
16/34

FARNBOROUGH
MAIN STREET (East side)
The Grange and attached stables and outbuildings

GV
II
House and attached stables and outbuildings. C16 rear wing; early/mid C17 front range; late C19/early C20 left range and alterations. Stables and outbuildings to rear are late C18 and C19. Regular coursed ironstone, with splayed plinth and moulded string course. C20 tile roofs have coped gable parapets with moulded kneelers; ashlar ridge, end and internal stacks throughout.

L-plan, extended to T-plan, with wing to rear. Two storeys and attic; Four-window range with one-window addition to left. Entrance in third bay has ribbed door in renewed or altered moulded and hollow-chamfered basket arch doorway in straight head; sunk spandrels with roundels. Single basket arch light to left. Door and window have single hood mould with lozenge stops. Late C19/C20 canted bay windows to left and right, on right of two storeys, of two lights to front and sides. Moulded crenellated parapets. Four-light window. Leaded stone mullioned windows with hood moulds throughout,on ground floor with transoms. First floor has two four-light windows, on left at lower level, and two-light window above entrance. Second bay has three-light half-dormer. Left range has six-light mullioned window, with five-light window above .Roof dormer has four-light wood mullioned window.

Right return side one-window range .Ground floor has late C19 projection with lean-to roof. Re-used window. Five-light and four-light attic windows have arched lights. To rear: large external stack on left has two late C19 square shafts. Small two-light staircase windows. Early C20 colour-washed roughcast projection. C20 ground floor addition.

Rear wing is two storeys and attic; three-window range. Splayed plinth. Central gabled staircase projection has broad chamfered corners on ground floor,with moulded corbelling-out above. Three small two-light windows. C19/C20 ribbed Tudor arch door to right. Moulded and hollow-chamfered doorway in straight head with sunk spandrels. Two-light window set high up on right.C20 window inserted to left of staircase projection. First floor has three-light windows. Some windows are lead latticed. End stack has two square shafts.

Interior: front range has dog-leg staircase with winders and cut-out splat balusters. Winder stairs in rear range. Kitchen has raised moulded Tudor arch fireplace with cornice, and ogee stop-chamfered ceiling beams. Some Tudor arch doorways. Some moulded two-panelled doors. First floor has some broad-chamfered beams. Room in rear range has chamfered Tudor arch corner fireplace. Partly renewed queen strut and through purlin roof. Stables and outbuildings attached to rear wing. C18 left range. Three bays. Left bay slightly lower. C20 ground floor projection and external staircase to C20 door and casement. Stable doors. Gabled half-dormers have casements with glazing bars. Further C19 range to right.

Listing NGR: SP4341649675

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26275449

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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2