NHER 13948 (Building record) - Grange Cottage

September 1978. Field Visit.
Grange Cottage. Timber-framed, thatched house infilled with clay lump or wattle and daub. Possibly an early 16th-century hall house with an upper floor added in the 17th-century.
Building visually inspected by E. Rose. The interior features a large brick fireplace with three ovens which had recently been reopened by the owner. A Latin document of 1449 regarding lands in South Elmham, Suffolk had previously been found in a hole in the studding of the main room.
The 19th-century outbuildings to the west of the cottage were used as a wheelwright's shop and retain a cast iron dish for fitting wheel rims. The garden retains a hollowed-out stone block, locally believed to have been a font originally located in Kenninghall Palace, but possibly a cross base.
See HER Record Cards (S1) for further details.
Included in Pevsner's Buildings of England (S3). See also press cutting (S4).
E. Rose (NAU), 11 July 1990 [1].
Updated H. Hamilton (HES), 29 August 2017.

May 1984. Listed Grade II.
Listing Description:
Hall house. Mid C16 with later alterations and additions. Timber framed with roughcast wattle and daub infill under thatched roof. One storey and dormer attic. Door in C20 outshut left. 3 C20 and one C18 casement to ground floor. Gabled roof with 3 eyebrow dormers under thatch, each with C20 windows. Ridge stack to right inserted between hall and solar. Rear fenestration largely C20 but 2 early C19 casements in 2 eyebrow dormers. C20 pantiled outshut to left. Interior. Lounge (formerly Hall) with Cl7 inserted fireplace and ceiling, the bressummer with tongue stops, the bridging beam chamfered and tongue stopped. Close studded framing of heavy scantling. Screens passage to south now only open studded : blocked doors in exterior walls, that to east further obscured by C18 or C19 inserted winder staircase. 2 square- headed service doors lead from screens passage to kitchen, one blocked. Partitioned beam between buttery and pantry with mortices for muntins survives and blocked 4-light diamond mullioned window looks into south extension. Room north of stack with chamfered bridging beam and 5-light diamond mullioned window opening into C10 outshut. Roof of tie beams on arched braces (the ties cut to form doorways) support queen struts, but roof otherwise much altered. Fragments of further mullioned windows undereaves.
Information from (S2).
H. Hamilton (HES), 29 August 2017.