Abbot's Grange

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SP 0937 BROADWAY CP CHURCH STREET (west side) 8/17 Abott's Grange 30.7.59 GV II* House. C14 with C17 additions. Restored and extended early C20. Limestone rubble with stone slate roof. Comprises a hall aligned north/south, a solar cross-wing at the south, a small chapel on the east side projecting from the angle between hall and solar, and a C17 wing adjoining to the south of the solar. At the north end of the hall, on the site of the service accommodation, early C20 additions extend to the north and the west. Parallel with this west range are further early C20 additions projecting to the west from the south end of the C17 south wing. On the east side the hall is lit by a window of two tre- foiled lights with transom. To its right is a restored chamfered pointed door- way to the screens passage. To the left, across the angle with the chapel, is a window of two trefoiled ogee lights with transom and flat head. The east wall of the chapel has a chamfered one-light window on the ground floor. Above is a window of two trefoiled lights under a pointed head with quatrefoil tracery. At the left is a wing renewed in the C17 which has a 4-light mullioned window on both floors and a one-light window at the left on the ground floor. Adjoining to the right (north) of the hall is a narrow early C20 gabled projection. Set back to its right is a range of similar date, formerly containing a studio, which has a window of six lights with three transoms. On the west side the hall is lit by two windows of two trefoiled ogee lights with flat heads and transoms. On the first floor of the solar is a window of two trefoiled lights under a pointed head with quatrefoil. At the west end of the C20 wing which projects from the north end of the hall the upper storey has a stone canted bay window and is carried on two square and two round piers to form an open porch. The parallel range on the south side has windows with plain reveals, two attic dormers, and some applied timber-framing. Interior: at the north (low) end of the hall are three stone doorways with sunk quadrant mouldings; the two eastern ones have ogee heads. A doorway at the east end of the south wall is similar. An adjacent flat-headed doorway in the east wall leads to the chapel undercroft. Above it is a squint. The hall has three raised base-cruck trusses, the outer ones against the end walls of the hall. The central truss has an arch- braced collar and an ogee moulding which once continued down to floor level in stone but which is now cut back. The rafters are arch-braced and the wind- braces are large and curved. The solar, on the first floor of the cross-wing, contains a restored timber screen with carved tracery, brought from elsewhere. The solar roof has moulded wall-plates, curved wind-braces, rafters with arch- braced colalrs, and an arch-braced collar truss with timber wall-posts. (VCH, p 35).

Listing NGR: SP0937337457

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Sources

Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Worcester, (1901), 35

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