Description

LITTLE PONTON AND STROXTON ROAD
SK 93 SW STROXTON (north side)
4/114 Farmbuildings at
Grange Farm
II
2 crew yards, beast houses, stables, barn. Pigeoncote, 1866,
built for Christopher Turnor. Coursed squared limestone rubble
and red brick with ashlar quoins and dressings, stone coped slate
roofs. E-plan farmyard, with 2 storey barn to spine and single
range beast houses to sides of yard, open sides, with brick
piers. Front has paired gables to centre containing 3 semi-
circular headed louvred lights each separated by planked door.
To left a planked door, similar double doors, an opening to
stable yard and a louvred light beyond. To right a planked door,
double doors, an opening and beyond further tall double doors.
At the centre of the yard is a 2 storey square pigeoncote with
circular flight hole to one side, a hipped slate roof with wooden
turret surmounted by a shaped lead roof with weathervane. Barn
and waggon hovel at rear, 2 storey, 9 bay front having central
double planked doors with segmental arch, above is a panel
inscribed "CT 1866". To left a pair of open arches with iron
stanchion and beyond a planked door. To right a further planked
door and 4 arches, all with iron stanchions. To first floor, 6
square openings with louvres and overlights and a single doorway.
To right of the central doorway is a belt drive Flywheel. To
either side of the main block are single storey ranges of waggon
hovels and stores.

Listing NGR: SK9180432169

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26315691

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Recommended Books

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  Hertfordshire (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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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets