The Grange, Monkton Lane

This building was listed Grade II in 1949 with the following description:
'House. Mid-late C18, incorporating an earlier house. Brick; stone quoins; roof of Welsh slate, 2 storeys, 5 windows; central door, in ornate wooden porch, has 10 panels; flat brick arches with keystones over sash windows having glazing bars; roundels between bays over first floor windows. Right return to street has Gothic window under a barge-boarded hood. Roof is hipped, with 2 transverse ridge brick chimneys. Interior: original shutters throughout; dog-leg staircase has 2 turned balusters to a tread, with the local variation of diminishing length balusters at the turn, mahogany hand- rail with spiral curtail, dado rail complete in hall and stairs.'
The garden has several tall mature trees and contains at least one outbuilding of a similar period to the house in brick with a slate roof, chimney and water tablong. From Monkton Lane the house and garden are concealed behind a tall 18th century brick wall (HER 8023). LISTED GRADE 2