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FRILFORD
SU4397
15/44 Frilford Grange and Frilford
Old Grange

GV II

Two houses. c.1840 (Frilford Grange) with mid C18 house to rear (Frilford Old
Grange). Frilford Grange: coursed and dressed limestone with ashlar dressings,
and banded rustication to ground floor. Gabled Welsh slate roof; brick ridge an
end stacks. Single-depth plan. Franco-Italianate style. 2 storeys. 4-window
range. Round arch over double-leaf doors with fanlight. 3-bay porch with keyed
round arches and pierced spandrels is continued as verandah with parapet across
gabled outer projections: these have tripartite French windows, the first floor
windows being set and revealed within twin basket arches with busts carved on
the outer keys. 2-bay centre has French windows set in moulded segmental-headed
architraves. Deep pine bracketed eaves. Interior: mid C19 interior with marble
fireplaces and staircase. Frilford Old Grange: coursed limestone rubble; gabled
M-shaped stone slate roof; brick end stacks. Double-depth plan. 2-storey,
3-window range rear elevation, has 6-panelled (2 glazed) door with overlight
flanked by C20 window and C19 four-light casement: C20 windows and mid C18
three-light cross-window with leaded lights on first floor. Mid C19 stucco
extension to side. Rear service range, heightened in early C19, has two C18
three-light leaded casements. Interior: C18 panelled doors. 5-bay collar-truss
with butt purlins. One of 2 villas in Frilford built for the Aldworths in
c.1840.
(John Betjeman and John Piper (Ed.), Murrays Architectural guide: Berkshire,
1949, p.131).

Listing NGR: SU4389497213