Granchen
Granchen, Church Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1319762
- Date first listed:
- 11-May-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Granchen
- Statutory Address:
- Granchen, Church Road
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1319762
- Date first listed:
- 11-May-1953
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 21-Nov-2002
- List Entry Name:
- Granchen
- Statutory Address 1:
- Granchen, Church Road
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:
- Granchen, Church Road
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- South Gloucestershire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bitton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 68163 69304
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 16/04/2020
980/15/3B
BITTON
CHURCH ROAD (east side)
Granchen
(formerly listed as outbuilding to west of the Grange)
11.5.53
GV
II
Former kitchen wing to The Grange. Early C18, with later alterations. Local rubble stone, originally rendered, with Bath stone ashlar dressings. Hipped pantile roof. Rectangular plan.
EXTERIOR: triple arcade to ground floor with entrance to centre: elliptically-arched openings with ashlar surrounds, moulded imposts and keystones. Openings now infilled with inserted modern casement windows. String course at first floor level. Upper floor has three round windows with moulded surrounds, with keystones at the cardinal points. Lower third of windows infilled with rubble; swivelling windows retain old glass. Rear (garden) elevation is plainer and more altered, with modern windows. East elevation altered.
INTERIOR: now partially sub-divided, the ground floor is dominated by a large open hearth, with an elliptical arch of moulded ashlar, with keystone. Cellar is extensive, sub-divided into two main sections with barrel-vaulted roofs, with original wine bins, slate chopping block, etc. Upper floor retains several early C19 cast iron grates. Roof structure substantially intact.
HISTORY: the name 'Granchen' is a shortening of 'Grange' and 'kitchen': this was the original function of the building, which is attached to the separately-listed Grange [q.v.]. The extensive cellars and size of the hearth all bear this out. The arcaded south front was clearly intended for show, and can be compared with the garden house of c.1720 at Widcombe Manor, with also has a triple arched loggia to the ground floor and a hipped roof (but concealed behind a parapet: the elevation of 'Granchen' seems to have been altered in this respect).
The building was extensively refurbished in the 1960s and 1970s, when the eastern extension was added. John Wood the younger is believed to have occupied the Grange in the later 18th century, but the front is more likely to be of an earlier date than this.
Listing NGR: ST6816369305
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 28555
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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