Description

OTLEY HELMINGHAM ROAD
TM 25 NW
(East side)
4/110
Grange Farmhouse
II

Farmhouse. C16 or C17. Timber framed with colourwashed render and plain
tiled roof, originally thatched. L-shaped plan. Single storey with attic.
Entrance front: projecting wing at right with brick walling to the ground
floor with jowled wall posts at either side showing through the
colourwashed render and having been replaced with bricks to their lower
body. Tripartite ground floor window having a central sash of 2x2 panes
with lateral lights of lx2 panes. To the left flank of this wing is a sash
window of 2x2 panes and a flat-roofed dormer window of 3 lights. The axial
wing, recessed and at left of this, has to the re-entrant angle between the
two, a canted C19 porch with a hipped roof which has a ½-glazed door with 2
lower raised and fielded panels and 4 upper glazed panesl with a central
lion's mask knocker. The ground floor of the axial range has a plank door
at left and to right a window of 5x3 panes and a 3-light first floor
casement. Ridge stack of 2 flues. Left hand side: attached C19 lean-to of
Flemish bond brick which forms a gableted extension. Right hand side:
lean-to outshut with a pantile roof, masking the lower body at left with 2
and 3-light windows. Recessed and at right is the end of the axial range
which has a ½-hipped roof. Four-light ground floor window and first floor
sash window of 3x2 panes. Rear: panels of pargetting below the eaves. The
walling at left partially rendered with a brick plinth and a 3-light
casement. The walling at right has a ground floor C19 plank door with 2
windows to its left of 3 lights and 4x2 panes. Pantile roof. At right of
this range is a gabled wing with corrugated iron cladding to the walls and
a 2-light first floor window.

Interior: chamfered ceiling beams and joists. Close studded walling to
ground and first floors and angle braces. One ground floor room has a
massive C16 ceiling beam with hollow chamfers. Winder staircase.

Listing NGR: TM2038155875

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26572504

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Recommended Books

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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey