Listed Building: The Grange (formerly listed as The Rectory) (2/59)

Former rectory. Mid-late C17 with C18, and C19 alterations and additions. Coursed limestone rubble with ironstone dressings, plain-tile roofs, brick ridge and end stacks. Complex plan. 2 storeys and attic; 5-window range. Main front faces garden to north and has gabled stair-turret to left of centre rising above eaves with 2-light hollow-chamfered stone mullion windows. Part-glazed panelled door immediately to right of stair turret with stone lintel, a pair of 'French' windows to left and right of centre with flat-arched heads and canted bay window to far right. 3-light hollow-chamfered stone mullion window to 1st floor above bay window, a gabled half-dormer window to 1st floor centre with similar 3-light stone mullion window and 3-light casement windows to left of stair turret to ground and 1st floors, with wood lintels. Stone-coped gables with kneelers. A 2-storey 1-window extension to left with similar casement windows. Two rows of Collyweston stone slates survive on roof to left of stair turret. Entrance front has 3 gabled projecting wings, that to centre shallower than those either side and of mid-late C19 date. Similar stone mullion windows. Interior has early C19 open well staircase with stick balusters and carved tread ends. Some reeded doorcases of same date. (VCH: Northamptonshire: Vol IV, p236)

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Jun 10 2021 10:53AM