Building record 3523/6/1 - No.3 Manor Road (The Grange)

Rectory, now house. Datestone 1850, by S.S. Teulon. Regular coursed limestone with ashlar dressings and fishscale pattern and plain- tile roof. Double-depth plan in Tudor style.

{1} Rectory, now house. Datestone 1850, by S.S. Teulon. Regular coursed limestone with ashlar dressings and fishscale pattern and plain- tile roof. Double-depth plan in Tudor style. 2 storeys with attic. Entrance front of 3-window range of 4-, 6- and 10-light stone mullioned windows with transoms. Gabled cross wing breaks forward to left with C19 ribbed door in lean-to porch to right. Central eaves dormer with wooden roof dormer to right. Ashlar gable parapets and kneelers and lateral brick stack and brick and stone stacks at ridge and end. Datestone and armorial plaque between windows at first floor. 2-window range to right is similar. Elevation to left is similar with large canted stone bay. Rear elevation has large stone-mullioned and transomed staircase window with short square tower to left with bell cupola. Interior not inspected but noted as having original staircase.

{4} Undated photo.

{5} A lantern with cupola since the building also for a time served as a school. Some alterations by HM Townsend in 1878-9.

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 23/176 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> 1986, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), G05 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN100394.

<3> HET Buildings Conservation Team, 1993-2006, Buildings Planning Files, G162/2/11 (part checked) (HET Planning File (Buildings)). SNN105512.

<4> Photographs of buildings in Grendon (Photographs). SNN111740.

<5> Bailey, B, Pevsner, N, and Cherry, B, 2013, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, p. 307-8 (Book). SNN111989.

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Jun 30 2020 1:55PM