Description

SP 9228 NW HEATH AND REACH WOBURN ROAD

3/10016 The Grange

GV II

House. C18, remodelled and extended in 1906 by Thomas Handley
Bishop for Willis family. Roughcast brick with some tile and
stone dressings. Slate roof with stone coped gable parapets and
modillion eaves. Brick axial and side lateral stacks with brick
cornices and pots.
Plan: The C18 6-bay house is at the centre and faced south. In
1906 it was remodelled so that the S front became the rear garden
front and the north was given a 3-storey main entrance porch; and
large asymmetrical cross-wings were added on the east and west
sides, the east side with a service wing. All in an Elizabethan/
Arts and Crafts style.
Exterior: 2 storeys and attic. Asymmetrical 1:3:1:3:1 bay N front
with gabled cross-wings and gabled 2-storey porch to right of
centre. Left cross-wing has canted oriel. Taller right-hand cross
wing is treated as squat tower with cornice and small gable in
parapet and 2-storey bay with diagonal buttresses. Central porch
has ashlar doorway with segmental canopy, panel above with putti
and initials DTW and MMW and dates 1799 and 1906. Above doorway
is Ipswich window with leaded panes and small pediment and tile
band and relieving arch above. Similar tile relieving arch over
Ipswich window in bay on right and over oriel on left. Small
single-light window in bays between. Rear S 2:2:2 centre with
modillion cornice and colonnade an/with balcony above flanked by
cross-wing on left with large canted 2-storey bay and canted wing
on right with sundial and tile bands in gable.
Interior: All 1906 joinery. Panelled entrance vestibule with
inglenook and bolection chimneypiece. Open-well staircase with
heavy turned balusters. 1906 chimneypieces and plaster ceiling
cornices in principal rooms.

Listing NGR: SP9239828566

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26588073

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
• 
  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
• 
  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)