Description

UPTON SCUDAMORE
ST 84 NE
8/221 UPTON SCUDAMORE VILLAGE
The Grange
GV II
House. Early C18 with additions of early-mid C18 and of 1747 (datestone);
altered mid C20 and renovated 1981. Rubblestone, rendered at front, with
brick and stone dressings. Plain tile roofs. 2 storey, 3-bay house,
formerly with entrance between left-hand bays having external rear-wall stack;
2 slightly-recessed, single-storey bays added to left and early-mid C18, these
rebuilt 1981 with brick end wall and the right-hand bay raised to 2 storeys;
2-storey bay added to right end 1747. Main 4-bay range: right end has
rusticated quoins, removed above 1st-floor sill level; entrance to bay 3
masked by 1981 gabled porch; ovolo-moulded mullion windows with dripmoulds, of
2 lights to left bay and above door, of 3 lights to bay 2, and a 1981 2-light
chamfered mullion window to bay 4; roof hipped with stacks to rear between
bays 1 and 2 and to right bay. Left-hand addition; 2-light flat-faced mullion
windows with chamfered lintels and dripmoulds, the left bay with a stable
door; stack between bays. Rear: mostly unrendered of rubblestone with brick
quoins indicating different builds and a few stone quoins at right end of main
range; main features are the two external stacks, offset at eaves level, the
right-hand one very wide, both with brick quoins; windows are C20 casements or
sashes, some having brick jambs, with wood or cement lintels. Right return:
rusticated quoins; 1981 UPVC windows replacing sashes with glazing bars
(photograph) those on 1st floor flanking datestone "WBA 1747".
Interior: on ground floor, large-scantling chamfered beans; large-scantling
bressumer to inglenook; angled corner fireplace in room adjoining that with
inglenook having stepped stone surround; roof has collared principal rafter
roof trusses with threaded through purlins and intermediate collared rafter
trusses.

Listing NGR: ST8637647726

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26545955

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