Description

SK 97 NE GRANGE DE LINGS

4/10 Grange de Lings
House (fomerly listed as
30.11.66 The Grange)
I

Former monastic grange now incorporated into later farmhouse.
C13, C14, C19 with C20 alterations. Coursed limestone rubble
with ashlar dressings, hipped slate roof with 3 brick stacks. 2
storey, 4 bay front with off-centre C20 half glazed door with
hood, flanked by single C20 4 light windows. To first floor a 3
light window is flanked by 4 similar 4 light openings. To the left
of the facade is a pointed window with C20 Y tracery. In the
facade is evidence of blocked openings obscured by later work.
In the left hand side front the remains of a turning stair can be
seen and a deeply splayed single light, the splay being on the
outer face. Interior. At the left hand end is a small vaulted
room with a C13 pointed window with a single chamfered rear arch,
opposite this is a matching single chamfered opening, now leading
to a later room. At the corner of the window wall is a turning
stair, the threshold to which is 4'0" below the current floor
level, opposite this is a segmental headed opening with single
chamfer. The room has a C14 quadripartite vault, comprising 2
hollow mouldings and a central filleted roll moulding. The ribs
spring from triple shafted responds with naturalistic foliage and
meet at a central boss which has since disintegrated. On the
inner eastern wall the responds support an arch with 2 filleted
roll mouldings with central roll. In the floor beneath the
suspended timber floor is a small area of plain floor tiles,
black and yellow. In the hall of the current farmhouse the
moulded reveal of a large window can be seen. In the bedroom
over, the upper part of a reticulated traceried window is
preserved, and the top is visible in the roof space over. The
C19 roof reuses C17 timbers. Grange de Lings is a corruption of
Grange de Barlings Abbey, and the medieval work is an important
survival of a grange building, the function of which is not as
yet understood. The monks were granted a free warren in 1253 and
the grange is mentioned in patent rolls in 1325. Source: F. L.
Baker, the History of Riseholme. 1956.

Listing NGR: SK9869877284

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17532886

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Recommended Books

• 
  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)