Building record 2129/2/1 - The Grange (formerly listed as The Rectory)

Former rectory. Mid-late C17 with C18, and C19 alterations and additions.

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 cent . Hed 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 stai . Ce 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)

{4} Undated photo;

{5} Drawing dated 1878;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 2/59 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), F12 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN45262.

<3> The Victoria History of the Counties of England: Northamptonshire, (unchecked) (Series). SNN10247.

<4> Photographs of buildings in Cogenhoe and Whiston (Photographs). SNN112070.

<5> Dryden H.E.L., 1842-1895, Dryden Collection, DR/25/65/1 (Archive). SNN115.

Record last edited

Jul 26 2024 3:08PM