The Grange
THE GRANGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1238139
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1961
- List Entry Name:
- The Grange
- Statutory Address:
- THE GRANGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1238139
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1961
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 25-Jan-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Grange
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE GRANGE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE GRANGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Horsington
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 70167 23724
Details
ST72SW HORSINGTON CP
7/45 The Grange (formerly listed as The Old Rectory)
24.3.61
GV II
House. Mid C18 with C19 extension, but with 1686 origins. Local stone cut and squared with Ham stone ashlar dressings; hipped plain clay tile roof; brick chimney stacks. Originally T-plan. 2 storeys with attices, 6-bay East facade, of which bay 6 was added in 1856. Plinth, bond course eaves cornice, rusticated quoins; tall 12-pane sash windows to ground floor with 16-pane sashes above, all in architraved surrounds with moulded cills; the upper bay 3 window having added scrolls to jambs, and below a projecting stone porch with 4-panel door in architraved surround with 4-pane fanlight over, surmounted by open pediment hood on console brackets, pitched lead roof, the side of the porch having offset buttresses; bay 6 projects slightly and has french doors with surround to match porch - the window above has scrolled jambs: hipped dormer windows bays 2 to 5, and half hipped dormer to bay 6 with semi-circular headed window. The South side has, in mid C20, had the ground floor windows deepened and the uppers narrowed. A plaque on the North gable wall "1686 TW" (Thomas Wickham) and "1856 HDW" (Hill Dawe Wickham)- the Wickham family were Rectors of Horsington fron 1686 to 1897. The interior has 6-panel doors, moulded ceiling covings, a good C18 staircase with a false arcade, reminiscent (as is the porch) of Nathaniel Ireson. (John A Cross, A History and Guide Book of Horsington, undated).
Listing NGR: ST7016723724
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 415481
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Cross, J, A History and Guide Book of Horsington, ()
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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