Description

DILHAM CHAPEL ROAD
TG 32 SW
(south side)
8/2 The Grange
18:5:79
II
House. 1846 possibly by Donthorne. Brick with stone and moulded brick dressings.
Slate roof. 2 storeys. West facade of 3 bays with moulded string course and cusped
and crenellated parapet. Also right hand cusped, gabled bay with corbelled stack
dated 1846, initials CMH and stone panel with unicorn. Tudor style 2-light mullioned
windows with blind-boxes and hood moulds. Cusped and crenellated parapet to 3 left
hand bays. Drain pipe heads of iron gargoyles. 2 stacks of clustered shafts with
moulded terracotta decoration. South face of 2 bays with corner pilasters and corbel
table. Moulded brick 4-centre arch doorway; glazed door with intersecting tracery,
lower panel blank. Ground floor window of 2-lights mullioned and transomed. 2 upper
windows as west facade. Stone steps with gothic cast iron balusters. 2 lower 2
storey ranges to rear; some windows with stone cusped heads. 3 bay service range
with iron lattice windows, some replaced. Later porch with re-used moulded brick
doorway. Interior. Stairs with iron balusters alternating decorated and plain square
section, wreathed handrail. Window shutters with linen-fold detail to outer face.
Linen-fold panelling to dining room said to have been brought to house from
Lincolnshire in 1950's.

Listing NGR: TG3212924815

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26654748

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Recommended Books

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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]