NHER 13910 (Building record) - Grange Farm

This building is shown on the Ordnance Survey - but note 'The Grange' to the southwest is also now Grange Farm. This was formerly Low Farm, Black Barn etc.

2 August 1978. Visit by E. Rose (NAU).
Inside this house are several good 17th century beams reused on their sides (holes for uprights now in sides) but most of the timbering is recent. There are three walls of late 19th century brick, but the south gable is of flint with earlier brick trimmings, with a structure like a blocked round-headed door in the brick. According to the owners this was once a protruding oven. An outshut, now plastered, seems from photographs to be of a different kind of brick to the rest of the house, is probably more recent. The main structure rests on sleeper beams on low walls, which are visible only inside. Locally said to have been a cowshed. The owner says 18th century tithe maps show building running east-to-west rather than north-to-south. This suggests the house of 17th century date was probably demolished in 19th century and rebuilt using the best of the old beams, one wall of flint - perhaps bakery, or some similar farm building - other walls clad in brick later still. Only recently reconverted to house. Barn to the north is made from clay-lump, timber framed, but again most of timbers recent, with only the solid arched brackets appearing to be of any age.
E. Rose (NAU).

Date of tithe map is in fact 1800 - seen and confirmed.
E. Rose (NAU).