Description

SO 81 SW BROOKTHORPE-with- UPTON LANE
WHADDON (east side)

5/15 Grange Farmhouse

II

Large farmhouse. Early C17 with early C19 additions. Mainly
timber framed but rendered over; additions in brick also rendered;
brick chimneys, some rendered; interlocking tile roof, clay plain-
tile on dairy wing, Welsh slate to lean-to roofs. Lobby entry 2-
room house of 2 storeys and attic with additional 2-storey porches;
single-room 2-storey addition to east; projecting dairy wing with
attic over. Front: original house to right with central 2-storey
porch and single-window flanking fenestration; 4-panel c19 door in
glazed surround with 9-pane sash over in porch; other sashes are
16-pane to ground floor with narrower 16 pane above, all with
simple filleted architraves; further left 6-panel partially glazed
door with top light and attached pitched roof porch; narrow 16-pane
sash over; brick ridge-mounted chimney stack axial to original
entrance. Dairy projects forward to left: C19 fenestration, loft
window in gable end, and cambered-arched small-paned fixed-light in
further gabled single-storey projection. 2-storey rectangular bay
added to west gable end in C19 with lean-to roof but altered
fenestration; small attic casement above. Back: C20 projection 2-
storey flat-roofed porch with C19 sashes to right and scattered
altered fenestration to left; 1 early C19 sash; sloping rendered
buttress to west end.
Interior shows evidence of much concealed timber framing; in one
room chamfered beam with bar stop and large blocked bread oven and
fireplace.

Listing NGR: SO8420212486

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26624761

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)