The Grange
THE GRANGE, FRONKS ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391239
- Date first listed:
- 13-Oct-2004
- List Entry Name:
- The Grange
- Statutory Address:
- THE GRANGE, FRONKS ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391239
- Date first listed:
- 13-Oct-2004
- List Entry Name:
- The Grange
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE GRANGE, FRONKS 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:
- THE GRANGE, FRONKS ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Tendring (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Harwich
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 24249 30836
Details
HARWICH
609-1/0/10005 FRONKS ROAD 13-OCT-04 Dovercourt The Grange
II Large house, now sixth form college. c.1911. H. Steward Watling for H.G. Hepworth. Red brick with rendered and close-studded first floor under tiled hipped and gabled roofs; tall brick chimneystacks with corbelled caps. Wooden framed windows, many with leaded lights. Vernacular Revival style, 2-storey house.
EXTERIOR: GARDEN ELEVATION has pair of gables to left with studs and curved braces between render, projecting over canted 2-storey bay windows with rendered first floors that have nautical relief sculptures. A tall ridge chimneystack behind each gable, and these flank a first floor balcony supported by timber columns. Gabled dormer to left. To right, deep sloping hipped roof with flat roofed dormer, and pair of chimneys to end, first floor with close-studding and mid-rail. LEFT return elevation has similarly detailed advanced gable with nautical relief then close-studding at first floor continues around to FRONKS ROAD ELEVATION. This has full height canted entrance bay to right with steep gabled porch supported on wooden columns and with shallow segmental vault to wood panelled front door; round windows to canted returns; first floor has stained glass windows and rises to through eaves to parapet with curved cut-out and flat roofed dormer behind. To centre, a large advanced gabled range similarly detailed to those at garden elevation.
INTERIOR: Entrance vestibule wood panelled with small stained glass windows leading to main hall with wood panelled ceiling, panelled dado and plastered upper walls framed with narrow pilasters, to east wall a tall C17 style wooden chimneypiece. Interiors also include a large Classical marble fireplace, smaller marble fireplaces, and cast iron fireplaces with classical detailing; plastered ceilings and ceiling roses, and moulded cornices. Main stair has fluted balusters and newels with capitals, and landing has 4 stained glass windows each with a royal portrait. Stair to attic has stick balusters and square plan newel chamfered to polygonal cushion caps.
HISTORY: Date stone to wall of verandah 'Laid by M.M.H Feb.18 1911'.
Large former house of 1911 by local architect H. Steward Watling with little-altered vernacular revival exterior and a number of fine interiors with plasterwork and panelling as well as nautical relief plaques.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 493594
- 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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